The PDS--a symbol of eastern German identity?

Webb, Adrian 1938- (Author).

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...

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ISBN: 9781443806817 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1443806811 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1847183697
ISBN: 9781847183699
ISBN: 1282190644
ISBN: 9781282190641
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xx, 306 p.)
Publisher: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

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General Note:	Multi-User. Originated as a doctoral thesis at the University of Sussex.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-298) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.