Between Prague Spring and French May

Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-106-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klimke, Martin

Pekelder, Jacco

Scharloth, Joachim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction

Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth

PART I: POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Chapter 1. ‘Out of Apathy’: Genealogies and Meanings of the British ‘New Left’ in a Transnational Context, 1956-1962

Holger Nehring

Chapter 2. Early Voices of Dissent: Czechoslovakian Student Opposition at the Beginning of the 1960s

Zdenek Nebrensky

Chapter 3. National Ways to Socialism? - The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden

Thomas Jorgensen

Chapter 4. The Parti communiste français in May 1968: The Impossible Revolution?

Maud Bracke

Chapter 5. 1968 in Yugoslavia – Student Revolt between East and West

Boris Kanzleiter

PART II: PROTEST WITHOUT BORDERS: RECONTEXTUALIZATION OF PROTEST CULTURES

Chapter 6. “Johnson War Criminal!” - The Vietnam Movements in the Netherlands

Rimko van der Maar

Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries: Transnational Identification and Disassociation in Protest Language

Andreas Rothenhöfer

Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Communes: The Private and the Political in late 1960s Berlin

Timothy Brown

Chapter 9. “Indiani Metropolitani” and “Stadtindianer”: Representing Autonomy in Italy and West-Germany

Sebastian Hauman

PART III: THE MEDIA-STAGING OF PROTEST

Chapter 10. Mediatisation of Provo: From a Local Movement to a European Phenomenon

Niek Pas

Chapter 11. The Revolution Will Be Televised: The Global 1968 Revolts on Norwegian Television News

Rolf Werenskjold 

Chapter 12. Performing Disapproval towards the Soviets:  Nicolae Ceausescu’s Speech on 21 August 1968 in Romanian Media

Corina Petrescu

PART IV: DISCOURSES OF LIBERATION AND VIOLENCE

Chapter 13. Guerrillas and Grassroots - Danish Solidarity with the 3rd World, 1960-79

Karen Steller Bjerregaard

Chapter 14. Sympathizing Subcultures?: The Milieus of West German Terrorism

Sebastian Gehrig

Chapter 15. The RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective

Jacco Pekelder

PART V: EPILOGUE

Chapter 16. The European 1960/70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey

PART VI: CHRONOLOGY: THE EUROPEAN 1968

Rolf Werenskjold

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Über Autor(innen)

Klimke, Martin
Martin Klimke is an associate professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Pekelder, Jacco
Jacco Pekelder is Senior Lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University and is Guest Professor “Europaicum” (2013–2014) at the University of Saarbrücken.

Scharloth, Joachim
Joachim Scharloth is a Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Japan.

Jacco Pekelder is Senior Lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University and is Guest Professor “Europaicum” (2013–2014) at the University of Saarbrücken.