Seeking Peace in the Wake of War : Europe, 1943-1947 /

When World War II ended, Europe was in ruins. Yet politically and socially, the years between 1943 and 1947 were a time of dramatic reconfigurations that proved to be foundational for the making of today's Europe. This volume homes in on the crucial period from the beginning of the end of Nazi...

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Other Authors: Romijn, Peter (Editor), Kott, Sandrine (Editor), Wieviorka, Olivier, 1960- (Editor), Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Seeking Peace in the Wake of War: Europe, 1943-1947; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn and Olivier Wieviorka; 1
  • In the Wake of War; The 'War Syndrome'; World War II and Polish Society; Marcin Zaremba; Germans into Allies; Writing a Diary in 1945; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann; Two Paths to the Same End?; The Challenges of the Liberation in France and Italy; Gabriella Gribaudi, Olivier Wieviorka and Julie Le Gac; 'Liberators and Patriots'
  • Military Interim Rule and the Politics of Transition in the Netherlands, 1944-1945Peter Romijn; 2
  • Reordering Communities; The Latvian Orphans Released from the Siberian Special Settlements (1946-1947); The Story of an Unusual Rescue in the Post-War USSR; Juliette Denis; Migration and Cleansing; Building a New Society in the Czech Borderlands after 1945*; Matěj Spurný; To Stay or to Go?; Reconfigurations of Jewish Life in Post-War Poland, 1944-1947; Audrey Kichelewski; Fighters Like No Others; The Soviet Partisans in the Wake of War; Masha Cerovic; 3
  • Organizing the Peace.
  • How the Soviet Empire Relied on DiversityTerritorial Expansion and National Borders at the End of World War II in Ruthenia; Sabine Dullin; Social Security and the End of the Second World War in France, the Netherlands and Belgium; Social Peace, Organizational Power and the State; Dirk Luyten; The Politics of Reconstruction; Foreign Aid and State Authority in Greece, 1945-1947; Polymeris Voglis; Organizing World Peace; The International Labour Organisation from the Second World War to the Cold War; Sandrine Kott; Conclusion; Philip Nord; Contributors to this Volume; Bibliography.