German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In

No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian an

Key writings and speeches by one of the major figures of the labor movement of the 19th century.

The German Social Democratic Party was the world’s first million-strong political party. This book examines key themes around which the party organized its ma

The German social democratic movement was the first mass, working-class party in world history, and a prototype for one of the major features of twentieth-centu