Workers and Politics in Occupied Austria, 1945-55

by Lewis Jill and Jill Lewis

In March 1946 Winston Churchill warned the world about the 'Iron Curtain' that had descended across Europe and behind which now lay, he said, the eight capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe. In fact, one of these eight, Vienna, escaped absorption into the Soviet bloc. Between 1945 and 1955, Austria and its capital were occupied by the Four (increasingly mutually antagonistic) Allied Powers. During this decade of confusion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719073510
• ISBN13: 9780719073519
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"