Peter Thompson is a lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research since 1990 has concentrated mainly on the history of the German workers' movement, the transformation of the GDR and the PDS but he has also written on ecology, the history of ideas and Bertolt Brecht.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for the PDSMonumentalismAntiquarianismCritical HistoryChapter 2. The Long Cold War and the Short Political CenturyThe Primacy of Politics and the Long Cold WarThe Primacy of EconomicsChapter 3. The PDS: Marx’s Baby or Stalin’s Bathwater?Monumentalism and Antiquarianism in the PDSCritical History and the Future of the PDSConclusionsBibliographyIndex

“…presents a unique perspective on the PDS…Thompson’s take on the PDS and the history of the German left gives historians and political scientists a fresh perspedtive on these topics.”  · German Studies Review

Peter Thompson is a lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research since 1990 has concentrated mainly on the history of the German workers' movement, the transformation of the GDR and the PDS but he has also written on ecology, the history of ideas and Bertolt Brecht.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for the PDSMonumentalismAntiquarianismCritical HistoryChapter 2. The Long Cold War and the Short Political CenturyThe Primacy of Politics and the Long Cold WarThe Primacy of EconomicsChapter 3. The PDS: Marx’s Baby or Stalin’s Bathwater?Monumentalism and Antiquarianism in the PDSCritical History and the Future of the PDSConclusionsBibliographyIndex

“…presents a unique perspective on the PDS…Thompson’s take on the PDS and the history of the German left gives historians and political scientists a fresh perspedtive on these topics.”  · German Studies Review

Peter Thompson is a lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research since 1990 has concentrated mainly on the history of the German workers' movement, the transformation of the GDR and the PDS but he has also written on ecology, the history of ideas and Bertolt Brecht.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for the PDSMonumentalismAntiquarianismCritical HistoryChapter 2. The Long Cold War and the Short Political CenturyThe Primacy of Politics and the Long Cold WarThe Primacy of EconomicsChapter 3. The PDS: Marx’s Baby or Stalin’s Bathwater?Monumentalism and Antiquarianism in the PDSCritical History and the Future of the PDSConclusionsBibliographyIndex

“…presents a unique perspective on the PDS…Thompson’s take on the PDS and the history of the German left gives historians and political scientists a fresh perspedtive on these topics.”  · German Studies Review