[Penguin History of Europe 09] • Global Age · Europe 1950-2017 (9780735223998), Europe 1950-2017 by Kershaw, Ian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover The Penguin History of Europe Title Page Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Map of the European Union, 2018 Preface Acknowledgements Foreword: Europe’s Two Eras of Insecurity 1. The Tense Divide

The Heat of the Cold War Living with the Bomb: Fear or Fatalism?

2. The Making of Western Europe

Democracy Consolidated Imperial Retreat

3. The Clamp

Loosening the Clamp: The Soviet Union Yugoslavia’s ‘Heresy’ Tightening the Clamp: The Soviet Bloc

4. Good Times

The ‘Economic Miracle’ The Welfare State The Consumer Society Stepping Stones Towards Integration

5. Culture After the Catastrophe

The Shadow of the Past Uses and Abuses of the Past Breaking with the Past Breaking with the Values of the Past

6. Challenges

Protest and Violence The Other ’68 Shifting Sands in Eastern Europe The Forward March of Social Democracy in Western Europe

7. The Turn

Economies in Trouble Recession Politics Democracy Triumphs The Cold War Returns

8. Easterly Wind of Change

Perestroika Momentum for Change Business as Usual: West European Preoccupations

9. Power of the People

The Satellites Drop Out of Orbit The Unexpectedly Rapid Route to German Unification The Long Death Throes of the Soviet Union A New Era

10. New Beginnings

Ethnic War Misplaced Hopes Hopes of Unity Dispiriting Governance in Western Europe

11. Global Exposure

The ‘War on Terror’ Globalization’s Janus-Face Political Challenges of Globalization The European Union’s Challenges The ‘putin Factor’

12. Crisis Years

Meltdown Averted Austerity Politics The Migrant Crisis The Threat of Terrorism Putin’s Aggression Brexit

Afterword: A New Era of Insecurity Photographs Select Bibliography Index About the Author