Author: Barker, Peter [editor]
Title: The Party Of Democratic Socialism In Germany : Modern Post - Communism Or Nostalgic Populism?
Description: Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998, 1st edition. Paperback, VG. [vi]+ii+222pp, edges a little rubbed otherwise a fine copy. German Monitor vol 42. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 9042003502 ¶ A collection of 12 essays which assesses the present position of the party within the German political system shortly before the second ‘Superwahljahr' in Germany. It also examines its relations with other post-communist parties in Europe and evaluates the state of its relations with the other political parties competing for the left-of-centre vote in the new Länder. Above all the volume is concerned with the question as to whether the PDS, as the successor party to the former ruling communist party in East Germany, represents a modern form of socialism or is merely a populist reaction to the particular concerns of eastern Germans after unification.

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