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The 40 pages that link to Social Democratic Party of Germany, each with the reason it gives.

• Social democracyBroader topic: Its debates and electoral growth shaped early social-democratic organization and strategy.

• Otto von BismarckCompared with: Bismarck tried to suppress its organizations while courting workers through social insurance.

• Rosa LuxemburgRelated: Luxemburg joined its revolutionary wing and challenged its leadership’s support for the war.

• Second InternationalRelated: Its organizational strength made it a major model and force within the International.

• ReformismRelated: Its electoral growth made institutional routes to socialism a practical question, not merely a theory.

• Russian Social Democratic Labour PartyCompared with: Its established parliamentary model offered a different reference point for Russian Marxists.

• Wilhelm IICompared with: Its growing electoral strength challenged the conservative political establishment Wilhelm represented.

• Willy BrandtRelated: Brandt joined the party as a young activist and later led it as its national chairman.

• Enabling Act of 1933Related: Its members cast the only votes against the act among those present.

• Communist Party of GermanyCompared with: The KPD treated the SPD as a rival, sometimes denouncing it more fiercely than the far right.

• Helmut KohlCompared with: The SPD was Kohl’s principal national rival and governed West Germany before his 1982 election.

• Angela MerkelCompared with: The SPD was Merkel’s governing partner in several grand coalitions and her principal national rival.

• Eduard BernsteinRelated: Bernstein developed his arguments within the party whose electoral growth made reform seem increasingly viable.

• Friedrich EbertRelated: Ebert joined the party in 1889 and became its chairman in 1913.

• RevisionismRelated: Its electoral growth supplied the practical setting for Bernstein’s reformist arguments.

• Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and StateRelated: The decree's restrictions weakened the SPD before the regime outlawed it.

• August BebelBroader topic: Bebel’s leadership helped turn its early organization into a lasting mass party.

• Erfurt ProgramRelated: The party adopted the Erfurt Program at its congress in 1891.

• Clara ZetkinRelated: Zetkin organized within the party and led its work among women for many years.

• Spartacist uprisingRelated: Its leaders’ decision to suppress the revolt helped entrench the split between Social Democrats and Communists.

• Anti-Socialist LawsRelated: The law targeted the party’s organizations while allowing its candidates to contest elections.

• Bavarian Soviet RepublicCompared with: Its parliamentary approach clashed with the council republic’s revolutionary claim to power.

• Christian Democratic Union of GermanyCompared with: The CDU’s principal rival differs over labor relations, redistribution, and the role of the state.

• Helmut SchmidtRelated: Schmidt belonged to the SPD, whose divisions over policy weakened his political support.

• Social policyRelated: Its political growth helped drive early social insurance legislation in Germany.

• Karl KautskyBroader topic: Kautsky helped define the party’s Marxist program and became its leading theoretician.

• Socialist InternationalRelated: The party’s history and leadership have strongly influenced the Socialist International’s political tradition.

• German Workers' PartyCompared with: The party's name invoked workers, but its nationalism and antisemitism set it against social democracy.

• Günter GrassRelated: Grass campaigned for the SPD and used his public standing to support reformist politics.

• Karl LiebknechtNarrower topic: Liebknecht entered public life within this party before breaking with its wartime leadership.

• Reform or RevolutionRelated: Its debates over strategy formed the immediate political setting for the polemic.

• LuxemburgismRelated: Luxemburg worked within the party while challenging its increasingly parliamentary strategy.

• Iron law of oligarchyRelated: Michels studied its leadership and membership to test democratic organization in practice.

• Johann MostRelated: Most represented the party in the Reichstag before his expulsion and turn toward anarchism.

• Centre-left politicsBroader topic: It is a major party vehicle for centre-left politics in Germany.

• Ferdinand LassalleBroader topic: The party traces part of its institutional ancestry to Lassalle’s association.

• Kurt Georg KiesingerRelated: The SPD entered federal government for the first time under Kiesinger’s grand coalition.

• Alfred DöblinRelated: Döblin joined the party during the Weimar period, reflecting his engagement with democratic politics.

• History of social democracyBroader topic: Its growth demonstrated how a socialist party could organize workers and contest elections on a national scale.

• Politics of GermanyRelated: The SPD has often led or joined federal coalitions and advanced social policy.