The Vranitzky Era in Austria: Contemporary Austrian Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138539426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 300 str.

Anton Pelinka

Opis

Franz Vranitzky, the banker turned politician, was chancellor during the ten years (1986-96) when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the cold war

Spis treści

Topical Essays; 1: The Vranitzky Era (1986-1997); 2: Austria’s Social Democracy During the “Vranitzky Era”: The Politics of Asymmetrical Change; 3: Trends and Ruptures: Stability and Change in Austrian Voting Behavior 1986-1996; 4: From the Sphinx with—to the Sphinx without a Puzzle; 5: The Politics of Ausgrenzung , the Nazi-Past and the European Dimension of the New Radical Right in Austria; 6: Social Partnership: Anything Left?; 7: Economic and Social Policy of the Vranitzky Era; Nontopical Essay; 8: “Waltzing into the Cold War” US Army Intelligence Operations in Postwar Austria, 1944-1948; Forum; 9: The Long Shadow of World War II: The Politics of Historical Memory and Art Restitution; 10: Austrian Reaction to the Exhibition “War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944”; 11: Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust in Austrian Schools, 1955-1996 1; From the ‘Legacy of Shame’ to New Debates over Nazi Looted Art *; Business as Usual: Switzerland, the Commerce in Artworks during and after World War II, and National Identity; Review Essays; Friedrich Heer’s Place in the Debate on Austrian Identity; From Tutelage to Joint Ventures: Recent Literature on the Allied Occupation of Austria 1945-1955; Reviews; David G. Herrmann, The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) and David Stevenson, Armaments and the Coming of War. Europe 1904-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996); Jonathan Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996); Thomas Albrich, Klaus Eisterer, Michael Gehler, and Rolf Steininger, eds., Österreich in den Fünfzigern (Innsbruck-Vienna: Österreichischer Studien Verlag, 1995). and Wolfgang Kos and Georg Rigele, Inventur 45/55 (Vienna: Sonderzahl Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996).; Annual Review; Survey of Austrian Politics Austria 1997

O autorze

Pelinka, Anton