Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain

Part I. 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 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
Wiesław Bar

6. A Truly “European” Christian Democracy? The European People’s Party
Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł

Part II. Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain

7. The Elimination of Christian Democracy in Poland After World War II
Jarosław Rabiński

8. Christian Democrats Across the Iron Curtain
Paweł Ziętara

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 Kułakowski
Leszek Jesień

12. Christian Democracy off the Bookshelf: The Case of Jerzy Kulczycki
Małgorzata Choma-Jusińska

13. Christian Democracy beyond Christian Democracy: The Case of Stanisław Grocholski
Sławomir Łukasiewicz

14. Explaining the Absence of Christian Democracy in Contemporary Poland
Aleks Szczerbiak, Tim Bale

Part III. Christian Democracy Across the Cold War Caesura

15. The Christian Democratic Union of Central Europe
Stanisław Gebhardt

16. Christian Democracy in Slovakia
Ján Čarnogurský

17. The Prospects of Christian Democracy in Contemporary Europe: Experiences from Germany
Georg Milbradt

Nyckelord: History, History of Modern Europe, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Religion, Russian, Soviet, and East European History