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Informationen zum Autor BRUNO ARCIDIACONO Professor of History of International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales of the University of GenevaSTEFANO BIANCHINI Lecturer in History of Eastern Europe at the University of BolognaJERZY BOREJSZA Professor of History at the Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, WarsawLASZLO BORHI Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, BudapestANNA DI BIAGIO Associate Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of FlorenceENNIO DI NOLFO Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Florence and Deputy-Rector of the University of FlorenceSAKI DOCKRILL Senior Reader in International History at King's College, LondonRENÉ GIRAULT was Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Paris I SorbonneANNIE GUÉNARD Agregée d'histoire, Ph. D. in History and a member of the P. Renouvin Institute (Paris)JOHN KENT Reader of International History at the London School of Economics and Political ScienceMARTINA KESSEL Professor of Modern History and Gender History at the University of BielefeldANN LANE Reader of International History at the Queen's University BelfastWILFRIED LOTH Professor of Modern History at the University of EssenVOJTECH MASTNY Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, in charge of the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw PactANTOINE MARÉSDirector of the French Cultural Institute in PragueVETLA MOUSSAKOVA Maitre de Conférences at the University of Paris III Sorbonne NouvelleMIKHAIL NARINSKY Professor of International Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)STEVAN K. PAVLOWITCH Emeritus Professor of History of the Balkans at the University of Southampton GIORGIO PETRACCHI Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of UdineRONALD W. PRUESSEN Professor of History at the University of Toronto (Missisauga)OLIVER RATHKOLB Research coordinator at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International DialogueKLAUS SCHWABE Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of AachenGEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris IV Panthéon SorbonneGIAMPAOLO VALDEVIT Lecturer in International History at the University of Trieste Klappentext Bringing together the work of scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, this volume re-examines the crucial moments in the five years leading up to the Cold War. With the aid of new evidence from the official records of former Communist countries, this fresh analysis of diplomatic relations, economic imperialism, and cultural influences on great, middle and small-rank European power, reveals how and why the victors failed to reach an agreement of postwar order in Europe, a failure that resulted in a conflict that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung With the aid of official records of former Communist countries, this analysis of diplomatic relations, economic imperialism, and cultural influences on great, middle and small rank European powers, reveals how and why the victors failed to reach an agreement of postwar order in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Varsori PART I: PLANS FOR POSTWAR EUROPE 1943-1945 The United States from Roosevelt to Truman; K.Schwabe British Postwar Planning from Europe 1942-45; J.Kent De Gaulle's Plans for Postwar Europe; G.H.Soutou Soviet Plans for Postwar Europe; V.Mastny The Balkan Union: An Instance in the Postwar Plans of Small Countries; S.K.Pavlowitch Setting the Limits of the Soviet Hegemony in Europe; E.Calandri PART II: EAST-WEST EUROPEAN RELATIONS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE VIEW FROM THE WEST Great Britain, the Balkans, and the Division of Europe, 1943-45; B.Arcidiacono Franco-Czechoslovak Relations from 1944-1948...
