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This is the first full-scale study of post-World War II Europe written since the oil crisis of 1973óa watershed year in international relations. Europe Since 1945 takes a penetrating look at the effects of World War II: the settlement after 1945; the Cold War up to 1955; Britain and France; Italy and Germany; the countries of Southern Europe; the withdrawal from empire; Soviet Russia, 1945-1983; the Russification of Eastern Europe, 1945-1953; Eastern Europe, the restless "empire."