Between Prague Spring and French May : : Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 / / ed. by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder, Joachim Scharloth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bjerregaard, Karen Steller,; Bracke, Maud Anne,; Brown, Timothy,; Gehrig, Sebastian,; Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid,; Haumann, Sebastian,; Jørgensen, Thomas Ekman,; Kanzleiter, Boris,; Klimke, Martin,; Maar, Rimko van der,; Nebřenský, Zdeněk,; Nehring, Holger,; Pas, Niek,; Pekelder, Jacco,; Petrescu, Corina L.,; Rothenhöfer, Andreas,; Scharloth, Joachim,; Werenskjold, Rolf,
• HerausgeberIn: Klimke, Martin,; Pekelder, Jacco,; Scharloth, Joachim,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Politics between East and West -- Chapter 1 “Out of Apathy” Genealogies of the British “New Left” in a Transnational Context, 1956–1962 -- Chapter 2 Early Voices of Dissent: Czechoslovak Student Opposition at the Beginning of the 1960s -- Chapter 3 National Ways to Socialism? The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1960–1980 -- Chapter 4 The Parti communiste français in May 1968 The Impossible Revolution? -- Chapter 5 1968 in Yugoslavia: Student Revolt between East and West -- Part II Protest Without Borders: Recontextualization of Protest Cultures -- Chapter 6 “Johnson War Criminal!” Vietnam War Protests in the Netherlands -- Chapter 7 Shifting Boundaries: Transnational Identification and Disassociation in Protest Language -- Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Communes: The Private and the Political in Divided Berlin, 1967–1973 -- Chapter 9 “Stadtindianer” and “Indiani Metropolitani” Recontextualizing an Italian Protest Movement in West Germany -- Part III The Media-Staging of Protest -- Chapter 10 Mediatization of the Provos: From a Local Movement to a European Phenomenon -- Chapter 11 The Revolution Will Be Televised: The Global 1968 Protests in Norwegian Television News -- Chapter 12 Performing Disapproval toward the Soviets: Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Speech on 21 August 1968 in the Romanian Media -- Part IV Discourses of Liberation and Violence -- Chapter 13 Guerrillas and Grassroots: Danish Solidarity with the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s -- Chapter 14 Sympathizing Subcultures? The Milieus of West German Terrorism -- Chapter 15 The RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective -- Part V Epilogue -- Chapter 16 The European 1960–70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray -- Chronology of Events of Protest in Europe 1968 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index