In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life-not with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland's Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution." It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.
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• Introduction
• The roots of Catholic "revolution": Thomism, the 'human person,' and Emmanuel Mounier
• Personalism at war : clandestine intellectual life and anti-Nazi resistance in World War II
• Catholicism in a newly Communist world : between Christian democracy and Catholic socialism
• The twilight of social Catholicism? Emmanual Mounier and Poland's Catholic press, 1945-1948
• World peace on nationalist terms : progressive Catholicism and the Stalinist turn of
• 1948
• Pastors and catechumens : Catholic renewal at the margins of Marxist revolution
• Stalinist Catholics of Europe, unite! The Stockholm Appeal and the Polish project of a Catholic-Socialist International, 1949-1953
• The limits of Catholic "revolution": the Vatican and Stalinism's turn against the church, 1953-1956.

In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life-not with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland's Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution." It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.
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• Introduction / Piotr H. Kosicki
• One: Vatican II and the Cold War / Gerard P. Fogarty
• Two: Vatican II and Hungary / Árpád von Klimó
• Three: Vatican II and Yugoslavia / Ivo Banac
• Four: Vatican II and Czechoslovakia / James Ramon Felak
• Five: Vatican II and Poland / Piotr H. Kosicki.

A substantial historiography has emerged across national and linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Council's story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries.The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. This volume assembles-for the first time in any language-a broad overview of the place of four different Communist-run countries-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia-in the story of the Council. Framing these is an account of how the Cold War impacted the Council and its reception. The book engages with both English-language scholarship and the national historiographies of the countries that it examines, o ering a global lens on the present state of research (covering all relevant languages) and seeking to propel that research forward. All of the chapters draw on both non-English secondary literature and original primary sources-some published, some archival.In all four countries, religious aggiornamento went hand in hand with waves and spurts of political liberalization. Though short-lived in their initial form, civic aggiornamenti magnified the impact of religious aggiornamento. Every country behind the Iron Curtain was different, yet even across such diverse situations, one finds evidence that societies engaged with Vatican II-and, moreover, that the Council furnished a set of norms and aspirations that would play a significant role in the final years of the Cold War. The election of St. John Paul II in 1978..., a pope from behind the Iron Curtain, lit a match, but the tinder had been set much earlier for modernization, reform, and an embrace of pluralism-even among Catholics living behind the Iron Curtain.
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• Introduction / Piotr H. Kosicki
• One: Vatican II and the Cold War / Gerard P. Fogarty
• Two: Vatican II and Hungary / Árpád von Klimó
• Three: Vatican II and Yugoslavia / Ivo Banac
• Four: Vatican II and Czechoslovakia / James Ramon Felak
• Five: Vatican II and Poland / Piotr H. Kosicki.

A substantial historiography has emerged across national and linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Council's story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries.The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. This volume assembles-for the first time in any language-a broad overview of the place of four different Communist-run countries-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia-in the story of the Council. Framing these is an account of how the Cold War impacted the Council and its reception. The book engages with both English-language scholarship and the national historiographies of the countries that it examines, o ering a global lens on the present state of research (covering all relevant languages) and seeking to propel that research forward. All of the chapters draw on both non-English secondary literature and original primary sources-some published, some archival.In all four countries, religious aggiornamento went hand in hand with waves and spurts of political liberalization. Though short-lived in their initial form, civic aggiornamenti magnified the impact of religious aggiornamento. Every country behind the Iron Curtain was different, yet even across such diverse situations, one finds evidence that societies engaged with Vatican II-and, moreover, that the Council furnished a set of norms and aspirations that would play a significant role in the final years of the Cold War. The election of St. John Paul II in 1978..., a pope from behind the Iron Curtain, lit a match, but the tinder had been set much earlier for modernization, reform, and an embrace of pluralism-even among Catholics living behind the Iron Curtain.
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• Physical Space
• A Cemetery of Ruins : The Ghetto Space and the Abject Past in Warsaw's Postwar Reconstruction / Michael Meng
• The Unrealized 1947-48 Design for a Memorial at the Former Death Camp at Treblinka : An Iconographic History / Zofia Wóycicka
• Heimweh in the Heimat : Homesick Travelers in the Lost German East, 1955-70 / Andrew Demshuk
• Political Space
• Curtailing Memory : Simplification and Politicization of Memories of Expulsion and the Eastern Territories in Divided Germany / Christian Lotz
• The Musealization of "Flight," "Expulsion," and "Integration" in the Federal Republic of Germany : Institutional Trends, Conceptual Approaches, Controversial Receptions / Tim Völkering
• Reconciliation Remembered : Early Activists and Polish-German Relations / Annika Frieberg
• Literary Space
• Uncanny Gdańsk/Danzig : Memory, Forgetting, and Reconciliation in the Works of Günter Grass and Stefan Chwin / Joanna Kedzierska Stimmel
• On Slavs and Germans : Andrzej Stasiuk's Geopoetics of European Memory / Magdalena Marszalek
• Afterword: Trauma, Memory, and Justice : A Few Notes on Polish-German Historical Memory and Its Prospects / Adam Michnik.