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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Dual Europe | |
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| Making Postwar Europe | |
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| Closing the Gap on World War II? | |
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| Soviet Dominance in the East | |
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| The West: American Influence | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Klement Gottwald, Stalinist | |
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| Josip Broz Tito, Communist Nationalist | |
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| Economic Integration and Political Stabilization in the West | |
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| Defense Mechanisms | |
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| Economic Integration | |
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| The Community: New Europe's Core | |
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| Associated Countries | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Jean Monnet, Cognac and Europe | |
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| Konrad Adenauer, Senior Statesman | |
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| Failure of EFTA and Expansion of the European Community | |
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| EFTA | |
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| Characteristics of the Seven | |
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| The Disappearing Periphery | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| James Harold Wilson, Reluctant European | |
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| Kurt Waldheim, Austria in the Dock | |
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| Decolonization | |
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| Origins of Decolonization | |
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| Death by War | |
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| Failed Transformations | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Frantz Fanon, Language, Peasants, and Revolution | |
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| Stalinism and "Actually Existing Socialism" | |
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| Guiding Principles | |
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| The East European Revolution | |
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| Stalinism in Eastern Europe | |
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| "Actually Existing Socialism" in the USSR | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Georgi Dimitrov, Master in Ideology | |
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| Ana Rabinovici Pauker, Communist Nonperson | |
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| De-Stalinization and Destabilization | |
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| Stalin's Successors | |
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| Destabilization in Eastern Europe | |
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| Khrushchev's Dilemma | |
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| Restricted Decentralization | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Nikita Sergeievich Khrushchev, Peasant Wit | |
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| Alexander Dubcek, Brief Spring | |
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| The Shifting Economic Framework and Political Change in the West | |
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| Economic Quandaries | |
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| The Thatcher Era in Britain | |
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| Mitterrand's "Unintended Revolution" | |
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| Italy's Triple Revolution | |
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| Keeping the Balance in Germany | |
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| Meeting the Challenge | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, No Interpreter Needed | |
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| Fran�ois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand, "A Very Good Dancer" | |
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| Cultural Change and Extremism in the West | |
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| Expanding Opportunities and Growing Protest | |
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| Discontent in the West | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Mara Cagol, Cofounder, Red Brigades | |
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| Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, Philosopher-Feminist | |
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| Continuity and Change | |
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| Scandinavian Social Democracy | |
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| Central Europe | |
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| The Lesser-Developed Countries | |
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| European Union: The Acceleration of History | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Joerg Haider, Embarrassment or Admonition? | |
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| Andreas Papandreou, Democratic Fighter | |
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| Evolution of Society | |
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| Postwar Society | |
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| The Changing Family | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| John XXIII, "The Good Pope" | |
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| Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago | |
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| Cultural Dimensions | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| European Culture | |
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| Euromarxism | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre, Model of an Intellectual | |
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| Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertm�ller von Elgg Spanol von Braucich, Outrageous! | |
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| Stagnation and Failed Reform in the East | |
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| Stagnation in the Soviet Union | |
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| Beginning the End: Poland | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev's Failed Revolution | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, "Our Regime Resembles A Cancer Cell" | |
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| Nicolae Ceausescu, Gigantomania | |
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| The Collapse of Communism | |
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| Why the Dominoes Fell | |
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| The Process of Collapse I: Implosion | |
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| The Process of Collapse II: Explosion | |
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| The Process of Collapse III: Russia versus the Soviet Union | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| V�clav Havel, Velvet Revolution | |
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| Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, Maverick | |
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| Europe in a Global Age: Problems and Prospects | |
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| The New Germany | |
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| The New Russia | |
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| The Balkan and Southeastern Hot Spots | |
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| Unfinished Business | |
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| The European Union's March | |
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| The Larger East European Economies and the EU | |
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| What Is Europe? | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Dark Horse and White Poodle | |
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| Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, "The Modernizer" | |
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| Image Sources and Credits | |
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| Index | |