Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A.    A large part of the bourgeoisie and the old elites from big industry never accepted the democratic republic and hoped to get rid of it at the first opportunity.
B.    On the left, the actions of the SPD Leadership during the revolution drove many of its former adherents to the Communists.
C.    From its very beginning, the Weimar Republic was afflicted with the stigma of the military defeat.
D.    The contained revolution gave birth to a "democracy without democrats"