Gerd Rainer-Horn is lecturer at the University of Warwick and the author of European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930's and co-editor of Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955.Padraic Kenney is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His books include Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 and A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989

It encourages us to transcend the framework of Cold War politics and assess the history of European politics in both East and West in diachronic perspective. Moreover, taken together, the essays provide snapshots into the contemporary history of notions and practices of "democracy" in Europe. . . . This stimulating volume should, therefore, serve as an incentive to explore in more detail the meanings of "democracy" in the whole of Europe since 1945.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 1945Chapter 3 Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and Reconstruction in Post-War EuropeChapter 4 Window of Opportunities or trompe l'oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945Chapter 5 Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the VercorsChapter 6 The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy During the Immediate Postwar PeriodPart 7 1968Chapter 8 "1968" and "The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958 - c. 1974)"Chapter 9 The Working Class Dimension Of "1968"Chapter 10 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from Across the Iron CurtainChapter 11 Echoes of Provocation: "1968" and the Women's Movements in France and GermanyPart 12 1989Chapter 13 The Global Context of 1989Chapter 14 The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International ContactsChapter 15 A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace MovementChapter 16 Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989Chapter 17 Bibliographic Essay

Gerd Rainer-Horn is lecturer at the University of Warwick and the author of European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930's and co-editor of Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955.Padraic Kenney is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His books include Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 and A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989

It encourages us to transcend the framework of Cold War politics and assess the history of European politics in both East and West in diachronic perspective. Moreover, taken together, the essays provide snapshots into the contemporary history of notions and practices of "democracy" in Europe. . . . This stimulating volume should, therefore, serve as an incentive to explore in more detail the meanings of "democracy" in the whole of Europe since 1945.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 1945Chapter 3 Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and Reconstruction in Post-War EuropeChapter 4 Window of Opportunities or trompe l'oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945Chapter 5 Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the VercorsChapter 6 The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy During the Immediate Postwar PeriodPart 7 1968Chapter 8 "1968" and "The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958 - c. 1974)"Chapter 9 The Working Class Dimension Of "1968"Chapter 10 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from Across the Iron CurtainChapter 11 Echoes of Provocation: "1968" and the Women's Movements in France and GermanyPart 12 1989Chapter 13 The Global Context of 1989Chapter 14 The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International ContactsChapter 15 A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace MovementChapter 16 Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989Chapter 17 Bibliographic Essay

Gerd Rainer-Horn is lecturer at the University of Warwick and the author of European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930's and co-editor of Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955.Padraic Kenney is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His books include Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 and A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989

It encourages us to transcend the framework of Cold War politics and assess the history of European politics in both East and West in diachronic perspective. Moreover, taken together, the essays provide snapshots into the contemporary history of notions and practices of "democracy" in Europe. . . . This stimulating volume should, therefore, serve as an incentive to explore in more detail the meanings of "democracy" in the whole of Europe since 1945.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 1945Chapter 3 Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and Reconstruction in Post-War EuropeChapter 4 Window of Opportunities or trompe l'oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945Chapter 5 Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the VercorsChapter 6 The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy During the Immediate Postwar PeriodPart 7 1968Chapter 8 "1968" and "The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958 - c. 1974)"Chapter 9 The Working Class Dimension Of "1968"Chapter 10 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from Across the Iron CurtainChapter 11 Echoes of Provocation: "1968" and the Women's Movements in France and GermanyPart 12 1989Chapter 13 The Global Context of 1989Chapter 14 The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International ContactsChapter 15 A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace MovementChapter 16 Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989Chapter 17 Bibliographic Essay