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1 - Social Democracy in Germany

from Social Democratic Routes in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Stefan Berger  and
Thomas Welskopp
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

Social democracy in Germany emerged within the matrix of national unification and the separation conflicts between liberals of all shades and radical democrats since the mid-nineteenth century. The term ‘democracy’ in the movement’s (and then party’s) name has to be taken as seriously as the commitment to ‘socialism’ commonly associated with it.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 47 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Barclay, , David E., and Weitz, Eric D. (eds.), Between Reform and Revolution: Studies in German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990 (Oxford: Berghahn, 1998).Google Scholar
Berger, , Stefan, Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany (London: Longman, 2000).Google Scholar
Bonnell, , Andrew C., Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914 (Leiden: Brill, 2021).Google Scholar
Fletcher, Roger (ed.), From Bernstein to Brandt: A Short History of German Social Democracy (London: Edward Arnold, 1987).Google Scholar
Grebing, , Helga, History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey (Oxford: Berg, 1985).Google Scholar
Hoffrogge, , Ralf, Sozialismus und Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland und Österreich. Von den Anfängen bis 1917 (Berlin: Schmetterling-Verlag, 2017).Google Scholar
Lösche, Peter, and Walter, Franz, Die SPD. Klassenpartei, Volkspartei, Quotenpartei – zur Entwicklung der Sozialdemokratie von Weimar bis zur deutschen Vereinigung (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1992).Google Scholar
Miller, Susanne, and Potthoff, Heinrich, A History of German Social Democracy from 1848 to the Present (Oxford: Berg, 1986).Google Scholar
Pierson, , Stanley, Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887–1912 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).Google Scholar
Welskopp, , Thomas, Das Banner der Brüderlichkeit. Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie vom Vormärz bis zum Sozialistengesetz (Bonn: J. H. W. Dietz, 2000).Google Scholar

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