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.