"Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the
events of one year - 1968 - or to the same familiar set of
countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes
European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron
Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn
national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole
continent was changed by the promise of global change and
revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone
seriously studying Europe in the postwar period." . James C.
Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the
1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University
of Amsterdam
"A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history,
truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in
nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan.
(...) The book will be of immense value to a wide range of
specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived
through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain,
trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960
and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective."
. David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History,
Emeritus Vassar College
Abandoning the usual Cold War-oriented narrative of postwar
European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an
innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two
decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It
examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in
Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned
European countries, and shows how ideological and political
developments in the East and West were interconnected through
official state or party channels as well as a variety of private
and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the
cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional
and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging
protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western
activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and
the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among
left-wing circles across Western Europe."
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