The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?

The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 330
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781443806817
ISBN-13 : 1443806811
Rating : 4/5 (811 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity? by : Adrian Webb

Download or read book The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity? written by Adrian Webb and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Die Linke an essentially eastern German party. Moreover, the PDS had been unique in enjoying a level of electoral success denied to other Communist successor parties which had not turned themselves into mainstream social democratic parties within the new liberal democratic order. This book, employing the period 2001–03 for its detailed analysis, suggests that this uniqueness is best understood as either an expression of eastern German “national” sentiment or as deriving from a reinterpretation of Marxism attuned to the interests of a democratic, twenty-first century society, and the book explores these alternative understandings in turn. Noting both the historic distinctiveness of German capitalism and the contradictions within German communism, it concludes that the PDS, now fused in Die Linke, remains nourished by the particularism of eastern Germany.


The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity? Related Books

The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Adrian Webb
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-26 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 Li
Fall and Rise of the PDS In Eastern Germany
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: D Hough
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Democratic Socialism party of East Germany, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, was widely thought to have no future in a reunified Germany, says Hough (
The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe Since 1919
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Adrian Webb
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-16 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a wealth of chronologies, tables and maps, together with discursive chapters on key issues and a guide to the historiography, this handy book is an indispe
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany
Language: en
Pages: 847
Authors: Derek Lewis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-18 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germanyprovides a comprehensive overview of most aspects of life and institutions in contemporary G
Constitutional Handbook on Korean Unification
Language: en
Pages: 1179
Authors: Korea Economic Research Institute (South Korea)
Categories: Constitutional law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-27 - Publisher: 길잡이미디어

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Constitutional Handbook on Korean Unification(I): Introduction Constitutional Handbook on Korean Unification(II): Political and Social Issues Constitutional Han