1 Article(s) by: Gerd-Rainer Horn

Gerd-Rainer Horn is Professor of History at Sciences Po, Paris, and the author of The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943–1948.

Rediscovering Europe’s Lost Revolution

Cold War stereotypes have blocked our understanding of European politics after 1945. On both sides of the future Iron Curtain, liberation from Nazism unleashed a spirit of radical democracy that might have led Europe down a very different path if not for superpower intervention.