Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 306 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1847183697
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9781847183699
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-298) and index
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Originated as a doctoral thesis at the University of Sussex
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS; RATIONALE; FOREWORD; SECTION I: INTRODUCTORY; 1.1 ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM; 1.2 HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS; SECTION II: ALTERNATIVE THESES: A NEW FORM OF NATIONALISM?; 2.1 THE NATURE OF GERMAN NATIONALISM; 2.2 DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF AN EASTERN GERMAN NATIONALISM; SECTION III: ALTERNATIVE THESES: A MARXIST REBIRTH?; 3.1 THE NATURE OF GERMAN CAPITALISM; 3.2 THE CONTRADICTIONS OF GERMAN COMMUNISM; 3.3 EINE BUNTE TRUPPE; 3.4 HERAUSFORDERUNG 80; SECTION IV: THE EVIDENCE: POLICIES AND ELECTIONS; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 POLICIES
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4.3 THE PDS AS COALITION PARTNER4.4 ELECTIONS; SECTION V: THE LEADER, THE IMAGE AND THE ACTIVIST; 5.1 LEADERSHIP; 5.2 IMAGERY, PUBLICITY AND SYMBOLISM; 5.3 THE PARTY ACTIVISTS; SECTION VI: IN CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9781443806817
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?
Language:
English
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