STEVEN LOVELL is a Lecturer in Modern European History at King's College London, UK. He is the author of The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (2000), and Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (2003).

• Introduction; S.Lovell Cultures of Change: Generations in the Politics and Memory of Modern Germany; B.Weisbrod Orphaned by History: French Youth in the Shadow of World War II; R.Vinen 'Generation' as a Political Argument in West European Protest Movements during the 1960s; H.Nehring The First Soviet Generation: Children and Religious Belief in Soviet Russia, 1917-41; S.Smith Identity, Agency and the 'First Soviet Generation'; A.Krylova Age Groups, Political Conflicts and Sociological Thought in Interwar Spain; S.Souto Kustrin The War Child: A German Trauma?; N.Stargardt 'Good Night, Little Ones': Childhood in the 'Last Soviet Generation'; C.Kelly Generations and Inter-Generational Relationships, Public and Private, in Twentieth-Century Britain; P.Thane Soviet Russia's Older Generations; S.Lovell