Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain

Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland, USA.  Sławomir Łukasiewicz is Director of the Institute of European Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, and a staff historian at the Institute of National Remembrance.

• 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; Wiesław Bar.- 6. A Truly “European” Christian Democracy? The European People’s Party; Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł.- PART TWO: 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 and Tim Bale.- PART THREE: 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.