The Crisis of the German Left : : The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy / / Peter Thompson.

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communis...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Monographs in German History ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (144 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 ON THE USES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HISTORY FOR THE PDS
  • Chapter 2 THE LONG COLD WAR AND THE SHORT POLITICAL CENTURY
  • Chapter 3 THE PDS: MARX’S BABY OR STALIN’S BATHWATER?
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX