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Background
After completing his doctorate, Judt taught modern French history at King's College, Cambridge from 1972 until 1978. Judt has called this an important period of his academic development and particularly credited historian John Dunn as an influence. He subsequently taught politics at St Anne's College, Oxford until 1987, when he moved to New York University, where he taught history again. In 1995, he founded the Remarque Institute of NYU. At this time, Judt was considered an "obscure British historian".

Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989 while waiting at the Vienna central station. It had been considered difficult to write a history of the Soviet Union until then due to lack of access to national archives.

Synopsis
Postwar is divided into four major parts: "Post-war", covering 19451953; "Prosperity and Its Discontents", covering 19531971; "Recessional", covering 19711989; and "After the Fall", covering 19892005. The book's structure is primarily chronological, with Judt covering events and developments in the context of their time.