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The Other '68ers - Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany (Hardcover)
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The Other '68ers - Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany (Hardcover)
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This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of
center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral
history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas,
experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age
of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968
and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt,
internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror
of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond -
reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately,
more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus
on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we
need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of
generational conflict during these years. Student activists
comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often
had very different ideas about what kind of a society they
envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German
democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it
also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting
identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in
1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book
would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave
their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers
therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right
dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it
experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational
change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the
national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to
re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.
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