Promises of 1968 : crisis, illusion, and utopia /

This book is a state of the art reassessment of the significance and consequences of the events associated with the year 1968 in Europe and in North America. Since 1998, there hasn't been any collective, comparative and interdisciplinary effort to discuss 1968 in the light of both contemporary...

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Other Authors: Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Revolutions and revolutionaries, lessons of the years of crises : three Czech encounters with freedom / Martin Palous
  • 1968 in Poland : spoiled children, Marxists, and Jews / Irena Gross
  • In search of a new Left / Dick Howard
  • Rethinking the political scientifically : brief reflections on 1968 by a child of the seventies / Jeffrey C. Isaac
  • What did they think they were doing? : the political thought of (the West European) 1968 revisited / Jan-Werner Müller
  • Thinking politically : Raymond Aron and the 1968 moment in France / Aurelian Craiutu
  • The divided spirit of the sixties / Karol Edward Soltan
  • The year 1968 and its results : an East European perspective / Agnes Heller
  • The Prague Spring 1968 : post-communist reflections / Jiri Pehe
  • From revisionism to dissent : the creation of post-Marxism in Central Europe in the wake of 1968 / Bradley Abrams
  • Post-Marxist mentality and the intellectual challenge to ideology after 1968 / Tereza-Brindusa Palade
  • Yugoslavia's 1968 : the great surrender / Nick Miller
  • 1968 Romania : intellectuals and the failure of reform / Cristian Vasile
  • Betrayed promises : Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian Communist Party, and the crisis of 1968 / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob
  • The Kremlin, the Prague Spring, and the Brezhnev Doctrine / Mark Kramer
  • 1968 and the terrorist aftermath in West Germany / Jeffrey Herf
  • The Prague Spring : resistance and surrender of the PCI / Victor Zaslavsky
  • Don't push us, comrade! : De Gaulle in Bucharest / Catalin Avramescu
  • Conclusion : 1968, Did It Matter? / Charles S. Maier.