LEADER 03144nam 2200529 450 001 9910809618903321 005 20230207220447.0 010 $a1-84545-160-0 010 $a1-57181-543-0 010 $a1-78533-053-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785330537 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4560126 035 $a(DE-B1597)636636 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785330537 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656968 100 $a20160712h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe crisis of the German left $ethe PDS, Stalinism and the global economy /$fPeter Thompson 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (144 pages) 225 1 $aMonographs in German History ;$vVolume 13 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- $tLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tChapter 1 ON THE USES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HISTORY FOR THE PDS -- $tChapter 2 THE LONG COLD WAR AND THE SHORT POLITICAL CENTURY -- $tChapter 3 THE PDS: MARX?S BABY OR STALIN?S BATHWATER? -- $tCONCLUSIONS -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aUsing Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers? movement. 410 0$aMonographs in German history ;$vVolume 13. 606 $aCommunism$zGermany (East)$xHistory 606 $aGlobalization 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1990- 607 $aGermany$xEconomic conditions$y1990- 607 $aGermany$xSocial conditions$y1990- 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory. 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a324.243/027 700 $aThompson$b Peter$f1960 July 22-$01715030 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809618903321 996 $aThe crisis of the German left$94109290 997 $aUNINA