Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Seeking Peace in the Wake of War: Europe, 1943-1947 9
5. 1. In the Wake of War
6. The ‘War Syndrome’: World War II and Polish Society 27
7. Germans into Allies: Writing a Diary in 1945 63
8. Two Paths to the Same End? The Challenges of the Liberation in France and Italy 91
9. ‘Liberators and Patriots’: Military Interim Rule and the Politics of Transition in the Netherlands, 1944-1945 117
10. 2. Reordering Communities
11. The Latvian Orphans Released from the Siberian Special Settlements (1946-1947): The Story of an Unusual Rescue in the Post-War USSR 145
12. Migration and Cleansing: Building a New Society in the Czech Borderlands after 1945 163
13. To Stay or to Go? Reconfigurations of Jewish Life in Post-War Poland, 1944- 1947 183
14. Fighters Like No Others. The Soviet Partisans in the Wake of War 203
15. 3. Organizing the Peace
16. How the Soviet Empire Relied on Diversity. Territorial Expansion and National Borders at the End of World War II in Ruthenia 217
17. Social Security and the End of the Second World War in France, the Netherlands and Belgium. Social Peace, Organizational Power and the State 247
18. The Politics of Reconstruction. Foreign Aid and State Authority in Greece, 1945-1947 277
19. Organizing World Peace. The International Labour Organisation from the Second World War to the Cold War 297
20. Conclusion 315
21. Contributors to this Volume 327
22. Bibliography 331
23. Index 357