The Crisis of the German Left: The Pds, Stalinism and the Global Economy

by Peter Thompson

Book Overview

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 Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845451600
• ISBN13: 9781845451608
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"