In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous
1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to
examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global
social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and
political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international
front, in the policy of detente. Though reflecting traditional
balance of power considerations, detente thus also developed from a
common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were
worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism.
In the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures
simultaneously inspired activists and constrained leaders; within a
few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale. Suri
examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three
continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther
King Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He
describes connections between policy and protest from the Berkeley
riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive
unrest in Wuhan, China.
Designed to protect the existing political order and repress
movements for change, detente gradually isolated politics from the
public. The growth of distrust and disillusion in nearly every
society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation, and
unprecedented public skepticism toward authority.
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