Transnational Moments of Change Europe 1945, 1968, 1989

by Rainer-Horn, Gerd; Kenney, Padraic; Agosti, Aldo; Balzarro, Anna; Bren, Paulina; Burke, Patrick; Gómez Gutiérrez, Juan José; Kenney, Padraic; Marwick, Arthur; Pasture, Patrick; Schulz, Kristina; Simensen, Jarle; Vanek, Miroslav

• ISBN13: 9780742523227
• ISBN10: 0742523225
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Approaches to the Transnational	ix
Padraic Kenney
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Part I: 1945
Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and Reconstruction in Postwar Europe	3	(24)
Aldo Agosti
Window of Opportunities or Trompe l'Oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945	27	(24)
Patrick Pasture
Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the Vercors	51	(14)
Anna Balzarro
The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy during the Immediate Postwar Period	65	(16)
Juan Jose Gomez Gutierrez
Part II: 1968
``1968'' and the Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958--c. 1974)	81	(14)
Arthur Marwick
The Working-Class Dimension of 1968	95	(24)
Gerd-Rainer Horn
1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from across the Iron Curtain	119	(18)
Paulina Bren
Echoes of Provocation: 1968 and the Women's Movements in France and Germany	137	(20)
Kristina Schulz
Part III: 1989
The Global Context of 1989	157	(16)
Jarle Simensen
The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International Contacts	173	(16)
Miroslav Vanek
A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace Movement	189	(18)
Patrick Burke
Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989	207	(18)
Padraic Kenney
Bibliographic Essay	225	(10)
Index	235	(6)
About the Contributors	241