Stefan Couperus is a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.Harm Kaal is an assistant professor of political history at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal]Part I: Urban Communities2. Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of "Community" in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London[Jon Lawrence]3. Rethinking the "Blueprint for Living Together": Community Planning and Sociology in Coventry, 1940–55 [Stefan Couperus]4. ‘Washing Away the Dirt of the War Years’: History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post–World War II Helsinki[Tanja Vahtikari]Part II: Rural and Regional Communities5. A Counter-Community Between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania[Florian Kührer-Wielach]6. Community Building and Expert Involvement with Reclaimed Lands in the Netherlands, 1930s–50s[Liesbeth van de Grift]7. The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany: The Case of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, 1945–65[Jeremy DeWaal]Part III: Transnational Communities8. Restoring the Republic of Letters: Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Transnational Community-Building in Europe, 1914–34[Marleen Rensen]9. A Vatican Conspiracy?: Internationalism, Catholicism and the Quest for European Unification, 1945–50[Maarten van den Bos]10. Piercing the Iron Curtain?: Competing Visions of Transnational Expert Community and the Question of International Order after 1945[Phillip Wagner]Part IV: Nation, Class, and Religion11. Reconstructing Post-War Political Communities: Class, Religion and Political Identity-Formation in the Netherlands, 1945–68[Harm Kaal]12. Dialogues on Religion in a "Socialist Society" under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s–60s[Ondrej Matejka]13. Languages of "National Community" and Its "Others" in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Berger]

Stefan Couperus is a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.Harm Kaal is an assistant professor of political history at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal]Part I: Urban Communities2. Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of "Community" in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London[Jon Lawrence]3. Rethinking the "Blueprint for Living Together": Community Planning and Sociology in Coventry, 1940–55 [Stefan Couperus]4. ‘Washing Away the Dirt of the War Years’: History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post–World War II Helsinki[Tanja Vahtikari]Part II: Rural and Regional Communities5. A Counter-Community Between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania[Florian Kührer-Wielach]6. Community Building and Expert Involvement with Reclaimed Lands in the Netherlands, 1930s–50s[Liesbeth van de Grift]7. The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany: The Case of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, 1945–65[Jeremy DeWaal]Part III: Transnational Communities8. Restoring the Republic of Letters: Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Transnational Community-Building in Europe, 1914–34[Marleen Rensen]9. A Vatican Conspiracy?: Internationalism, Catholicism and the Quest for European Unification, 1945–50[Maarten van den Bos]10. Piercing the Iron Curtain?: Competing Visions of Transnational Expert Community and the Question of International Order after 1945[Phillip Wagner]Part IV: Nation, Class, and Religion11. Reconstructing Post-War Political Communities: Class, Religion and Political Identity-Formation in the Netherlands, 1945–68[Harm Kaal]12. Dialogues on Religion in a "Socialist Society" under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s–60s[Ondrej Matejka]13. Languages of "National Community" and Its "Others" in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Berger]

Stefan Couperus is a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.Harm Kaal is an assistant professor of political history at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal]Part I: Urban Communities2. Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of "Community" in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London[Jon Lawrence]3. Rethinking the "Blueprint for Living Together": Community Planning and Sociology in Coventry, 1940–55 [Stefan Couperus]4. ‘Washing Away the Dirt of the War Years’: History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post–World War II Helsinki[Tanja Vahtikari]Part II: Rural and Regional Communities5. A Counter-Community Between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania[Florian Kührer-Wielach]6. Community Building and Expert Involvement with Reclaimed Lands in the Netherlands, 1930s–50s[Liesbeth van de Grift]7. The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany: The Case of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, 1945–65[Jeremy DeWaal]Part III: Transnational Communities8. Restoring the Republic of Letters: Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Transnational Community-Building in Europe, 1914–34[Marleen Rensen]9. A Vatican Conspiracy?: Internationalism, Catholicism and the Quest for European Unification, 1945–50[Maarten van den Bos]10. Piercing the Iron Curtain?: Competing Visions of Transnational Expert Community and the Question of International Order after 1945[Phillip Wagner]Part IV: Nation, Class, and Religion11. Reconstructing Post-War Political Communities: Class, Religion and Political Identity-Formation in the Netherlands, 1945–68[Harm Kaal]12. Dialogues on Religion in a "Socialist Society" under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s–60s[Ondrej Matejka]13. Languages of "National Community" and Its "Others" in Europe, 1918–68[Stefan Berger]