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This book traces the history of Europe from the end of World War II to 1992, the scheduled reunification of Western Europe. It examines the East European revolution of 1989 and the changes in the Soviet Union, as well as assessing the aftermath of the Cold War, the post-war period that most commentators feel has come to an end. The unification of Western Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire, the author argues, doesn't mark the end of history, as some claim, but the beginning of another era, of a new Europe, one quite unlike, yet in some ways parallel to the Europe that presided over the world at the end of the previous century.
Contents
Part 1 Postwarvacuum; the heritage of fascism - the purge of collaborators; from war to peace - Britain - Labour in power, France liberated, Italy divided, the smaller countries, Stalin's last years, the Sovietization of Eastern Europe, German twilight; the breakdown of the wartime alliance; the origins of the Cold War; toward European cooperation; Christian democracy and democratic socialism; the rise of European communism; Russia after Stalin. Part 2 Economic miracle: the economic state of Europe in 1945; the recovery of European industry; the surge of European agriculture; the transport revolution; the expansion of European trade; France - modernization and its discontents; the German "wirtschaftswunder"; Italy - from uncertain beginnings to stormy growth; Britain - stop-go; economic development in the rest of Europe; the Soviet economy; the industrialization of Eastern Europe; the welfare state emerges; health and housing; prosperity and the new communism; leisure for all; the new social structures; trade unions - power and weakness; the new managerial class. Part 3 European culture - the postwar scene: postwar blues. Part 4 Consolidation 1955-72: the two blocs; false dawn at Geneva; rebellion in Eastern Europe; West-East negotiations 1956-61; the Berlin crisis; la France seule; European cooperation - new initiatives; the Cuban crisis; polycentrism in Eastern Europe; 1968 - the year of the students' revolt; the invasion of Czechoslovakia; Britain - from Churchill to Heath; France - the coming of the fifth republic; Germany - Adenauer and after; Italy - opening to the left; Spain - the end of the Franco era; Benelux and Scandinavia; Austria and Switzerland; Greece; the Soviet Union - Khruschev and his successors; Eastern Europe - between conformity and independence. Part 5 The end of the postwar era - Western Europe: the European economy, 1970-90; social forces - old and new - ecology and the Greens, separatism and the national minorities, guest workers and new immigrants, terrorism; Germany - from the great coalition to reunification; Holland and Belgium; Britain - the Thatcherite revolution; France since de Gaulle; Italy - domestic crisis and recovery; Spain after Franco; Scandinavia - between national concerns and European cooperation. Part 6 The end of the postwar era - the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: the Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Gorbachev - decline and reform; stagnation in Eastern Europe; the East European revolution; epilogue.
