Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain: Europe Redefined

PART ONE: CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY REFRAMED.- 1. Introduction: From Siege Mentality to Mainstreaming? Researching Twentieth-Century Christian Democracy, Wolfram Kaiser.- 2. Catholic and Christian Democratic views on Europe before and after World War II: Continuities and Discontinuities, Patrick Pasture.- 3. Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer: A New Approach, Tiziana Di Maio.- 4. Not only De Gasperi: Italian Christian Democrats' Commitment to Europe, Antonio Varsori.- 5. Sainthood vs. Nationhood: The Beatification Causes of Schuman and De Gasperi, Wieslaw Bar.- 6. A Truly "European" Christian Democracy? The European People's Party, Beata Kosowska-Gastol.- PART TWO: CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE IRON CURTAIN.- 7. The Elimination of Christian Democracy in Poland after World War II, Jaroslaw Rabinski.- 8. Christian Democrats across the Iron Curtain, Pawel Zietara.- 9. Christian Democracy's Global Cold War, Piotr H. Kosicki.- 10. The Polish Section of the Belgian Christian Trade Union ACV/CSC, Idesbald Goddeeris.- 11. The Social Virtues of Christian Democracy, European and Polish: The Case of Jan Kulakowski, Leszek Jesien.- 12. Christian Democracy off the Bookshelf: The Case of Jerzy Kulczycki, Malgorzata Choma-Jusinska.- 13. Christian Democracy beyond Christian Democracy: The Case of Stanislaw Grocholski, Slawomir Lukasiewicz.- 14. Explaining the Absence of Christian Democracy in Contemporary Poland, Aleks Szczerbiak and Tim Bale.- PART THREE: CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE COLD WAR CAESURA.- 15. The Christian Democratic Union of Central Europe, Stanislaw Gebhardt.- 16. Christian Democracy in Slovakia, Ján Carnogurský.- 17. The Prospects of Christian Democracy in Contemporary Europe: Experiences from Germany, Georg Milbradt.... Mehr