Transnational moments of change : Europe 1945, 1968, 1989 / edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horn, Gerd-Rainer.

Kenney, Padraic, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe, Western.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Protest movements--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

Communism--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Communism.

History.

Europe--Politics and government--1945-.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Europe--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

xix, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Landham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]

Summary:

This anthology of fourteen original essays is the first collection of transnational studies on post 1945 western and eastern European society written by historians. The contributors target three particular moments of rapid change in postwar Europe--the moment of liberation, 1943-48; the 1960s; and 1989 as communism began to crumble. The collection opens a range of possibilities for historians of post-1945 European society, while providing all contemporary historians with a much needed guide to the methodology of transnational history.

Contents:

pt. one: 1945 ; Recasting democracy? Communist parties facing change and reconstruction in post-war Europe / Aldo Agosti ; Window of opportunities, or, Trompe l'oeil? The myth of labor unity in Western Europe after 1945 / Patrick Pasture ; Liberated zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: the cases of the Alto Tortonese and the Vercors / Anna Balzarro ; The influence of socialist realism in Italy during the immediate postwar period / Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez

pt. two: 1968 ; "1968" and "The cultural revolution of the long sixties (c. 1958-c. 1974)" / Arthur Marwick ; The working class dimension of "1968" / Gerd-Rainer Horn ; 1968 East and West: Visions of political change and student protest from across the Iron Curtain / Paulina Bren ; Echoes of provocation: "1968" and the women's movements in France and Germany / Kristina Schulz

pt. three: 1989 ; The global context of 1989 / Jarle Simensen ; The development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: the role of international contacts / Miroslav Vanek ; A transcontinental movement of citizens? Strategic debates in the 1980s western peace movement / Patrick Burke ; Opposition networks and transnational diffusion in the revolutions of 1989 / Padraic Kenney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index.

ISBN:

0742523225

0742523233

OCLC:

52720684