Transnational Moments of Change : Europe 1945, 1968, 1989

Offering a broad introduction to the methodology & practice of transnational history, this work focuses on three defining moments of 20th century European history, when changes affected the whole of the continent. 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 Cones 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. Edited By Gerd-rainer Horn And Padraic Kenney. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-234) And Index. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaches to the Transnational Part I: 1945 Chapter 1: Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and REconstruction in Postwar Europe Chapter 2: Window of Opportunitites or Trompe l'Oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945 Chapter 3: Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the Vercors Chapter 4: The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy during the Immediate Postwar Period Part II: 1968 Chapter 5: "1968" and the Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958-c. 1974) Chapter 6: The Working-Class Dimension of 1968 Chapter 7: 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from Across the Iron Curtain Chapter 8: Echoes of Provocation: 1968 and the Women's Movements in France and Germany Part III: 1989 Chapter 9: The Global Context of 1989 Chapter 10: The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International Contacts Chapter 11: A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace Movement Chapter 12: Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989 Bibliographic Essay Index About the Contributors Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three continent-wide moments of change. The work begins with a look at the close of World War Two, when liberation from Nazi occupation offered the opportunity for social and political experiment. Next, essays explore the late 1960s as generational change and political dissatisfaction rocked urban centers from Paris to Prague. Finally, the book turns to the fall of communism, a moment of revolutionary change that not only spread rapidly from country to country, but even affected and interacted with protest movements in Western Europe and elsewhere. Together, the essays provide both a new perspective on postwar Europe and a range of models for the historian interested in using the transnational approach.