Foreword by Nina Hauer
Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2006, pp 256
One needs to get used to the fact that party activities mean work, in the first place, and work, unlike other pastimes, implies thoroughly following procedures that have been perfected by time and experience. For all the cultural differences, people are basically the same everywhere, and parties are basically the same wherever they are, so the experience of German Social Democrats deserves respect. This book is strictly practical and strictly technological. One might say it is like a reference book on housekeeping. There is no place in it for reflections on what a party may offer its long-standing, chance, potential or possible electorate. What it has is a rigid and straightforward scheme of effective action: how it should address people in this or that situation.
