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A History of German Social Democracy from 1848 to the Present
This book traces the history of the Social Democratic Movement in Germany from its beginnings during the revolutionary period of the 1840s to the present. It shows how the German Social Democrats have to this day endeavoured to combine their commitment to the emancipation of the working classes with political freedom and reform in order to achieve a synthesis between socialism and democracy. Drawing the latest research together, the authors examine the major ideas and achievements of the party's leading representatives as well as the attitudes and lives of the grass-root members, against the wider political, economic and social background. Selected key documents further enhance this lucid, sympathetic but not uncritical account which, like its German original, will no doubt be accepted as a standard work on the evolution of the German Social Democratic Party.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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About the author
Susanne Miller
28 booksGerman historian.
She came from a family of upper middle class, mostly spent her childhood in Vienna and Sofia and engaged already in their youth in the socialist labor movement. She did not returned from a stay in the UK, after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany because of her political beliefs and their Jewish origin. Instead, she became involved in London in exile circles, which also belonged to her later partner and husband Willi Eichler. After the end of World War II, she went with him to Cologne and then to Bonn to take part in Germany's political reconstruction. Miller worked in the 1950s as an employee of the national leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and worked among other things, in the creation of the Godesberg program.
From 1960 to 1963 she continued her studies in Bonn, which she had broken off in the 1930s, and graduated with a program-historical work of German social democracy. Then she was an employee of the Commission for the History of parliamentarism and the political parties. Her historiographical works deal mainly with issues of the labor movement, exile and of recent German history. Susanne Miller preferred political-historical approaches to the study of programs, ideologies and political movements.
She came from a family of upper middle class, mostly spent her childhood in Vienna and Sofia and engaged already in their youth in the socialist labor movement. She did not returned from a stay in the UK, after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany because of her political beliefs and their Jewish origin. Instead, she became involved in London in exile circles, which also belonged to her later partner and husband Willi Eichler. After the end of World War II, she went with him to Cologne and then to Bonn to take part in Germany's political reconstruction. Miller worked in the 1950s as an employee of the national leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and worked among other things, in the creation of the Godesberg program.
From 1960 to 1963 she continued her studies in Bonn, which she had broken off in the 1930s, and graduated with a program-historical work of German social democracy. Then she was an employee of the Commission for the History of parliamentarism and the political parties. Her historiographical works deal mainly with issues of the labor movement, exile and of recent German history. Susanne Miller preferred political-historical approaches to the study of programs, ideologies and political movements.
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