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Negative Integration and Parliamentary Politics: Literature on German Social Democracy, 1890–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Richard Breitman
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Central European History , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 175 - 197
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1980

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1. See Lichtman, Allan J. and French, Valerie, Historians and the Living Past (Arlington Heights, Ill., 1978), pp. 58–59.Google Scholar

2. The best treatment of the SPD during the period of antisocialist legislation is still Lidtke, Vernon L., The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany 1878–1890 (Princeton, 1966).Google Scholar

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18. An omission is the very useful collection of documents by Emmerich, Wolfgang, ed., Proletarische Lebensläufe: Autobiographische Dokumente zur Entstehung der Zweiten Kultur in Deutschland, 2 vols. (Hamburg, 1975).Google Scholar

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20. In actuality, the SPD began negotiations with the DDP before it even discussed the possibility of an invitation to the USPD. See Protokoll der SPD Reichstagsfraktionssitzungen, Feb. 4, 1919, 10:30 A.M. and 4 P.M. (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam).

21. The Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD) was not in existence at the time that Hermann Müller's Great Coalition government collapsed, and the SPD congress in 1929 was held in Magdeburg, not Marburg (p. 57). The date of the 1930 Reichstag election was September 14, not September 19 (p. 59).

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27. This is quite evident in the meetings of the Parteivorstand and Parteiausschuss in late 1932 and January 1933. See Schulze, Hagen, ed., Anpassung oder Widerstand? Aus den Akten des Parteivorstands der deutschen Sozialdemokratie 1932/33 (Bonn–Bad Godesberg, 1975).Google Scholar