EAN: 9783319640860

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE IRON CURTAIN GEB...

This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe's
eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s.
Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent's western half after
World War II  but this is only one small part of the story of how the Christian Democratic
political family transformed Europe and defied the nascent Cold War's bipolar division of the
world. The first section uses case studies from the origins of European integration to
reimagine Christian Democracy's long-term significance for a united Europe. The second shifts
the focus to East-Central Europeans  some exiled to Western Europe  some to the USA  others
remaining in the Soviet Bloc as dissidents. The transnational activism they pursued helped to
ensure that  Iron Curtain or no  the boundary between Europe's west and east remained permeable
that the Cold War would not last and that Soviet attempts todivide the continent permanently
would fail. The book's final section features the testimony of three key protagonists. This
book appeals to a wide range of audiences: undergraduate and graduate students  established
scholars  policymakers (in Europe and the Americas) and potentially also general readerships
interested in the Cold War or in the future of Europe.

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