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A comment on Michael Cox's & Caroline Kennedy-Pipe's article, "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy? Rethinking the Marshall Plan," argues that their attempt to blame the Americans & their allies for the post-WWII division of Europe is not persuasive. Their avoidance of the German question is a glaring omission since a German settlement was vital to a lasting security regime in Europe. Cox & Kennedy-Pipe fail to offer any new evidence from Soviet archives that would support their claim that Stalin was willing to cooperate with the West. In addition, they failure to acknowledge disagreements among US policy makers about almost every aspect of European & German reconstruction means they do not appreciate the complex nature of Washington decision-making & the "subtlety" of Marshall's offer. Their article not only does nothing to advance understandings of the origin of the Cold War but their stance resembles a throwback to the "arch-revisionism" of the 1960s & early 1970s. J. Lindroth

An introduction to a forum, "World War II Crimes against Jews in Austria and Their Prosecution in Austrian Courts after the War," notes that the three contributions go beyond discussing war crimes committed by Austrians to look at the difficult transition to peace & reestablishment of the rule of law. They emphasize that the expropriation of Jewish property through "Aryanization," & the forced emigration of Jews, encouraged anti-Jewish policies in Austria, & contributed significantly to the Final Solution. It is noted that "Aryanization" was a uniquely Austrian contribution to radical Nazi policies that moved from "wild Aryanizations" to "legal Aryanizations" & the "ghettoization" of Jews in Vienna. The literature on the persecution of Jews in Austria is reviewed, & attention is called to postwar court records recently revealed as a valuable source of research on Austrian perpetrators. The information has encouraged a new generation of scholarly inquiry into Austria's involvement in Nazi cruelties. J. Lindroth

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- TOPICAL ESSAYS -- The Austrian Voter in Historical Perspective1 -- Electoral Change in Austria -- It Ain't Over 'til It's Over: Electoral Volatility in Austria from the 1970s through 2006 -- Regional Elections in Austriafrom 1986 to 2006 -- Electoral Strategies and Performance of Austrian Right-Wing Populism, 1986-2006 -- Framing Campaigns:The Media and Austrian Elections -- Austrian Electoral Behavior inInternational Comparison -- FORUM Austrian Experts Interpret the National Elections of October 1, 2006 -- Political Discontent, Negative Campaigning,and an Overrated Monster: A Short Comment on the Austrian Parliamentary Elections of 2006 -- Europeanization in Disguise -- Did the ÖVP Lose, or Did the SPÖ Win the 2006 National Parliamentary Election? -- Who Is the Winner?: The Strategic Dilemma of "the People's Choice" -- The Conservative Turn to Socialism -- NON-TOPICAL ESSAYS -- A New Perspective from Moscow Archives:Austria and the Stalin Notes of 1952* -- The Birth of the N+NA:Austrian and Swiss Foreign Policyin the CSCE -- REVIEW ESSAYS -- Refocusing the Critical Gaze from Sixty Years' Distance: Austrians' Experiences of the Nazi Past in Recent Historical Studies -- György's Machine Gun, Ildikós New Car: The Controversial Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Revisited -- New Scholarship on Austria, Germany, and Italy in the International Arenaduring the 1930s -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Österreichs Aussenpolitik derZweiten Republik-von der alliierten Besatzungbis zum Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts -- Österreichische Geschichtswissenschaft im 20.Jahrhundert: Ein biographisch bibliographisches Lexikon -- ANNUAL REVIEW -- Austria 2006 -- List of Authors

An assessment of the first 10 years of the "Contemporary Austrian Studies" (CAS) series restates the original editorial philosophy of providing "an international & comprehensive interdisciplinary approach" to advance the study of Austria. The goal of providing equal space for all periods of post-Habsburg history has not as yet been met, but it is hoped that the lack of attention given to the interwar period will be remedied with future volumes. The inclusion of historiography round tables, as well as extensive review essays & book reviews, has encouraged debate, & annual political reviews have given readers outside Austria an opportunity to keep up with Austrian political events. A statistical survey of CAS essays & their chronological distribution is included, along with the names & nationalities of CAS board members over the years. 1 Table. J. Lindroth

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- TOPICAL ESSAYS Tim Kirk, Fascism and Austrofascism -- Gerhard Senft, Economic Development and Economic Policies in the Standestaat Era -- Hansjorg Klausinger, How Far Was Vienna From Chicago in the 1930s? The Economists and the Depression -- Peter Berger, The League of Nations and Interwar Austria: Critical Assessment of a Partnership in Economic Reconstruction -- Jens-Wilhelm Wessels, Economic Performance and Micro-Economic Development in Austria, 1929-1938 -- James William Miller, Engelbert Dollfuss and Austrian Agriculture -- Helmut Wohnout, A Chancellorial Dictatorship with a "Corporative" Pretext: the Austrian Constitution Between 1934 and -- Alexander Lassner, The Foreign Policy of the Schuschnigg Government 1934-1938: The Quest for Security -- NON-TOPICAL ESSAY Megan Greene, Right-Wing Movements in the European Union: A Case Study of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) and the Lega Nord (LN) -- FORUM Commissioning History: Austria and World War II Restitution and Reconciliation -- Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Eva Blimlinger, The Austrian Historical Commission: International Background, Motives, Results, and Impact -- Martin Eichtinger, The Austrian Reconciliation Fund: Austrian Payments to Former Slave and Forced Laborers of the NS Regime -- Dieter Stiefel, The Austrian Life Insurance Sector and the Nazi Regime -- Oliver Rathkolb, Private Commissions -- Margit Reiter, The "Myth" ofKaprun: Forced Labor at the Tauern Power Plant in Kaprun and How Postwar Austria Dealt With It -- REVIEW ESSAYS Evan Burr Bukey: New Literature on Nazi Austria and the Holocaust -- Robert E. Herzstein: The Waldheim Matter: Old Issues and Perplexing Questions -- Herman Freudenberger: Studies in Nazi Business History in the Ostmark during World War II -- BOOK REVIEWS