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The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?
Author | : Adrian Webb |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1443806811 |
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 Die Linke an essentially eastern German party. Moreover, the PDS had been unique in enjoying a level of electoral success denied to other Communist successor parties which had not turned themselves into mainstream social democratic parties within the new liberal democratic order. This book, employing the period 2001–03 for its detailed analysis, suggests that this uniqueness is best understood as either an expression of eastern German “national” sentiment or as deriving from a reinterpretation of Marxism attuned to the interests of a democratic, twenty-first century society, and the book explores these alternative understandings in turn. Noting both the historic distinctiveness of German capitalism and the contradictions within German communism, it concludes that the PDS, now fused in Die Linke, remains nourished by the particularism of eastern Germany.
Fall and Rise of the PDS In Eastern Germany
Author | : D Hough |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781902459141 |
The Democratic Socialism party of East Germany, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, was widely thought to have no future in a reunified Germany, says Hough (German studies, U. of Birmingham). He explores how it has become a stable institution in the political landscape by establishing itself as
East German Distinctiveness in a Unified Germany
Author | : Jonathan Grix |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2003-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0567536068 |
This book explores the nature of the dramatic growth in a distinct sense of East German identity in the years since the events that led to formal unification in 1990. While it is problematic to see 'East Germanness' as a singular and homogenous identity, it can be perceived as a distinctive phenomenon and a level of identification that exists alongside local, regional and national identities. The essays in this volume hope to challenge the commonly held misconception that East German regional identity is a problem that needs to be overcome in the process of unification. Through analyses of the social, political and cultural behaviour of East Germans and their perception of their own place in German society, this volume makes a complex and nuanced contribution to discussions on German national identity and the unification process.
National Identity in Eastern Germany
Author | : Andreas Staab |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Analyzes the development from the divided to the unified Germany and asks to what extent East Germans have adopted a national identity in line with that of the West Germans. The text examines such identity markers as attitudes toward territory, economics, ethnicity and mass culture.
From East Germans to Germans?
Author | : Jennifer A. Yoder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.
Becoming East German
Author | : Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857459759 |
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
How Memory Divides
Author | : Jeremy Brooke Straughn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2021-05-09 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1351613413 |
This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their compatriots in the West? Or did they remain "East Germans" for the time being, with an identity tied to their distinct past, as if they were foreigners who had migrated without leaving home? How Memory Divides shows that these questions remain unresolved even today, less because of any "incomplete unity" between Germans in West and East, than because of the contradictory ways in which "easterners" themselves have remembered their past. Drawing on a unique study spanning two decades, the author reveals how divergent biographical memories have given rise to life stories with a diverse array of genres and storylines at odds with official accounts of the GDR and its demise. Over time, efforts to effect unity between West and East have reproduced divisions within the East. This book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics with interests in memory, heritage, and identity.