German social democracy, 1918-1933 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunt, Richard N. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 1964.
Series:	Yale historical publications. Miscellany ; 79.
Subjects:	Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD. Sociaal-democratie. Geschichte 1918-1933.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: The evolution of the party organization
The dual heritage: Lassalleans and Eisenachers
From illegal sect to mass party
Party organization and the great schism
2. The Weimar organization
The SPD in the Weimar republic
The statutes of 1919 and 1924
The state within a state
The party bureaucracy
3. Central party institutions: The leadership
The party executive
The party congress
The Reichstag fraction
4. Party members and voters
Party members
The social democratic vote
From class party to people's party
The question of verburgerlichung
5. Social democracy and the free trade unions
The growth of trade-union influence, 1868-1918
The end of the Mannheim agreement
Trade-union influence in the Weimar SPD
The trade unions in politics
6. The rebellion against the organization
The short history of the USPD
The Nuremberg reunification of 1922
Emergence of the new left: The Saxon conflict
Left social democracy
Second schism: The socialist workers' party
7. Conclusion: The middle-aged party.