Europe in Our Time: A History 1945-1992

Part 1 Postwar: Europe divided the new balance of power - the European vacuum 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.