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Author Webb, Adrian, 1938-

Title The PDS--a symbol of eastern German identity? / by Adrian Webb
Published Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 306 pages)
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
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 ..
Notes Originated as a doctoral thesis at the University of Sussex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index
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Subject Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany) -- History
Linkspartei (Germany) -- History
SUBJECT Linkspartei (Germany) fast
Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany) fast
Linkspartei gnd
Linkspartei (Körperschaft) swd
Subject Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- 21st century
Socialism -- Germany -- 21st century
Political parties -- Germany -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Nationalism
Political parties
Politics and government
Socialism
Politische Identität
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000847
Subject Germany
Deutschland Östliche Länder
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008411146
ISBN 9781443806817
1443806811
1282190644
9781282190641
9786612190643
6612190647
Other Titles Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus--a symbol of eastern German identity?