The PDS--a symbol of eastern German identity? / by Adrian Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Adrian, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany)--History.

Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany).

Linkspartei (Germany)--History.

Linkspartei (Germany).

Nationalism--Germany--History--21st century.

Nationalism.

Socialism--Germany--History--21st century.

Socialism.

Political parties--Germany--History--21st century.

Political parties.

Germany--Politics and government--1990-.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Other Title:

Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus--a symbol of eastern German identity?

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Die Linke (the Left) is now Germany's third largest political party and the fourth largest political grouping in the Bundestag, Germany's parliament. Die Linke, however, is the result of a fusion in June 2007 between the left wing of the German social democratic party (SPD) and the Partei des demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS), the successor to East Germany's former, effectively Communist, ruling party, the SED. In practice, the PDS contributed 60,000 of the new party's 72,000 members, making D...

Contents:

section I. Introductory

section II. Alternative theses : a new form of nationalism?

section III. Alternative theses : a Marxist rebirth?

section IV. The evidence : policies and elections

section V. The leader, the image and the activist

section 6. In conclusion.

Notes:

Originated as a doctoral thesis at the University of Sussex.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-298) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-19064-4

9786612190643

1-4438-0681-1