This book discusses the short-lived East German Social Democratic Party (SPD), which formed during the crumbling months of the... Læs mere
Parties and Politics in Modern Germany surveys the parties in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the German Democratic Republic after World War II and in... Læs mere
The central theme of this detailed examination of the SPD during its years of governance is that social and economic forces in the nation had a major effect, often unsettling, on the party at a time when it had achieved the pinnacle of political power.