Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain Europe Redefined
This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the c
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Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain
Piotr H. Kosicki · Sławomir Łukasiewicz Editors
Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain Europe Redefined
Editors Piotr H. Kosicki Department of History University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
Sławomir Łukasiewicz Institute of European Studies John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Lublin, Poland
This publication has been made possible, in part, by the support of the KonradAdenauer-Stiftung, Poland Office. ISBN 978-3-319-64086-0 ISBN 978-3-319-64087-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64087-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948684 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © hanohikirf/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Editors’ Preface
In a 2015 lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, in Poland, Wolfram Kaiser—perhaps Europe’s most incisive historian of Catholic politics—declared, “the history of Christian Democracy in twentiethcentury Europe as a research field is currently in a profound crisis.” Having neglected “research on the transfer of ideas and practices”— Kaiser argued—mainstream scholarship on this influential political family is producing work of increasingly marginal impact. On the other hand, Kaiser suggested that the very audience that he was addressing—a mix of scholars and practitioners from across Western and East-Central Europe—had the opportunity to define a promising new direction for the study of modern European politics. Poland, which played host to the conference, has, after all, consistently been the most Catholic of the former Iron Curta
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