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9789462702165: Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism
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ISBN 10 : 9462702160 ISBN 13 : 9789462702165
Editeur : Leuven University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism.

Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.

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À propos de l'auteur

Helmut Wohnout is Department Head in the Austrian Federal Chancellery, and since 1993, Director of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute Vienna. Michael Gehler is Professor of Modern German and European History at the Institute of History at the University of Hildesheim. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

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Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism.

'Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism' offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.

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Éditeur
Leuven University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9462702160
ISBN 13 
9789462702165
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Éditeur
Gehler Michael, Kosicki Piotr H., Wohnout Helmut
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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