German Social Democracy, 1905-1917: The Development of the Great SchismNo political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the cold war; yet they share a common origin in the Social Democratic Party of Imperial Germany. How did they come to go separate ways? By what process did the old party break apart? How did the prewar party prepare the ground for the dissolution of the labor movement in World War I, and for the subsequent extension of Leninism into Germany? To answer these questions is the purpose of my study. |
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Contents
PART | 1 |
THE REFORM TACTIC CHALLENGED 19051907 | 26 |
THE ELECTIONS OF 1907 AND THE NATIONAL QUES | 59 |
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| Title | German Social Democracy, 1905-1917: The Development of the Great Schism Volume 65 of Harvard historical studies |
| Author | Carl E. Schorske |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jun 22, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0846213796, 9780846213796 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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