v0.10 - Popular Front

Major changes:

• Governments with the Popular Front or Left Front (United Front/Einheitsfront) are possible without civil war. The Communists will have specific policy demands, and may call votes of no confidence. Popular Front governments will have dissent from both the left and the right.
• Can delay elections under emergency/presidential rule.

Minor changes:

• A whole bunch of bug fixes (thanks to everyone who commented!)
• People’s Party now improves Catholic vote share, and enables campaigning among Catholics.
• Coup progress adjusted for various events.

New Achievements:

• Sieg für die Einheitsfront, Sieg für die Volksfront - successfully carry out the policies of the United Front/Popular Front
• Ausnahmezustand - use emergency powers to cancel elections.
• Drei Pfeile - defeat a coup attempt without a civil war.

Also added a downloadable zip file for the game. Please let me know about any potential bugs!

Potential future changes:

• Extend end date to the end of 1933.
• Historical mode: no saving/loading, and lots of adjusted thresholds and parameters.
• New advisor actions: Christian Socialism (Mierendorff)
• Other than that, I have most of the content I want in this game already. It just needs some polishing.

Notes on the Popular Front:

I don’t know how the KPD would contend themselves in government. A KPD that is willing to support an SPD government would necessarily be different from Thälmann’s Stalinist organization, so I looked to the earlier Paul Levi KPD as well as the French Popular Front for ideas. Originally I had the KPD ministers implementing certain policies, but reading about Paul Levi, I think that the KPD would be abstentionist in government, in that they would not have any ministers to preserve their independent course of action, and disavow themselves from any unpopular course the government may take.

Ironically the hypothetical KPD position towards the Popular Front is basically analogous to the SPD position towards the Brüning government (i.e. toleration).

Sources: Gaido, Daniel. “Paul Levi and the Origins of the United-Front Policy in the Communist International.” Historical Materialism 25, no. 1 (2017): 131–74. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341515.

LaPorte, Norman H. “The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924-1933 : Factionalism, Fratricide and Political Failure,” 1998. http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/3259.