书目名称 | Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain |
副标题 | Europe Redefined |
编辑 | Piotr H. Kosicki,Sławomir Łukasiewicz |
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概述 | Examines the role of Christian Democracy in both East and West Europe to offer a fuller picture of modern European politics.Explores the transnational dimension of Christian Democracy and its contribu |
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描述 | .This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent’s western half after World War II, but this is only one small part of the story of how the Christian Democratic political family transformed Europe and defied the nascent Cold War’s bipolar division of the world. The first section uses case studies from the origins of European integration to reimagine Christian Democracy’s long-term significance for a united Europe. The second shifts the focus to East-Central Europeans, some exiled to Western Europe, some to the USA, others remaining in the Soviet Bloc as dissidents. The transnational activism they pursued helped to ensure that, Iron Curtain or no, the boundary between Europe’s west and east remained permeable, that the Cold War would not last and that Soviet attempts to divide the continent permanently would fail. The book’s final section features the testimony of three key protagonists. This book appeals to a wide range of audiences: undergraduate and graduate students, |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Catholic; Eastern Europe; Western Europe; Iron Curtain; 1989; Communism; politics; religion; transnational; n |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64087-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-87719-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-64087-7 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |