Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980

Published by Berghahn Books 2011

Between Prague Spring and French May

Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980

Edited by: Martin Klimke , Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth

Volume 7 in the series Protest, Culture & Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857451071

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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

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

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

Reviews

“The well-footnoted chapters are based on extensive research. There is an extensive bibliography and a 25-page chronology of events in 1968.” · Choice

“This collection of thought-provoking essays on the protest movements in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s—from Britain, Germany, France and the Nordic countries in the west to Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the east—shows the advantages of a multidisciplinary, transnational approach to the study of mass protest. At the end of the book is a handy chronology of important events and a comprehensive bibliography. The well-referenced Introduction provides useful background information on the political atmosphere in both Western and Eastern Europe in the period.” · European Legacy

“This volume offers many new insights into the complex history of 1968 on both sides of the Iron Curtain, bringing awareness to developments in smaller countries such as Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Norway that are usually omitted in existing literature. These essays should assist scholars studying Europe in the postwar period to transcend reductionist national narratives. The seventh volume of the Protest, Culture, and Society series is another welcome contribution to a much-needed and more comprehensive view of historical and cultural change in Europe around the mystical year of 1968.” · Journal of Cold War Studies

“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

“This volume is a very good contribution to historical studies, and for the study of transnational protest movements. Its strength derives from the variety of cases presented and from its focus on sub- or nonstate actors in a good selection of European countries.” · Memory Studies

“…[uses] a wide range of disciplines, including linguistic analysis of the transmission of protest language… The vast array of different approaches is at times dizzying, but contributes to a remarkable survey of the social reality of the period. These [essays] also confront one of the more unpleasant aspects of the movements of the era – their relationship to armed struggle… The scholars included here confront this history in all its messy and sometimes unpleasant detail. The result is a bold reappraisal of the sometimes naïve, sometimes dangerous, but always courageous confrontation of one generation with the world it was meant to inherit.” · Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Politics between East and West
Chapter 1 “Out of Apathy” Genealogies of the British “New Left” in a Transnational Context, 1956–1962 Holger Nehring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 Early Voices of Dissent: Czechoslovak Student Opposition at the Beginning of the 1960s Zdeněk Nebřenský Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter 3 National Ways to Socialism? The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1960–1980 Thomas Ekman Jørgensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 The Parti communiste français in May 1968 The Impossible Revolution? Maud Anne Bracke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 5 1968 in Yugoslavia: Student Revolt between East and West Boris Kanzleiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Part II Protest Without Borders: Recontextualization of Protest Cultures
Chapter 6 “Johnson War Criminal!” Vietnam War Protests in the Netherlands Rimko van der Maar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7 Shifting Boundaries: Transnational Identification and Disassociation in Protest Language Andreas Rothenhöfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Communes: The Private and the Political in Divided Berlin, 1967–1973 Timothy Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter 9 “Stadtindianer” and “Indiani Metropolitani” Recontextualizing an Italian Protest Movement in West Germany Sebastian Haumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III The Media-Staging of Protest
Chapter 10 Mediatization of the Provos: From a Local Movement to a European Phenomenon Niek Pas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 11 The Revolution Will Be Televised: The Global 1968 Protests in Norwegian Television News Rolf Werenskjold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 12 Performing Disapproval toward the Soviets: Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Speech on 21 August 1968 in the Romanian Media Corina L. Petrescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Part IV Discourses of Liberation and Violence
Chapter 13 Guerrillas and Grassroots: Danish Solidarity with the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s Karen Steller Bjerregaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 14 Sympathizing Subcultures? The Milieus of West German Terrorism Sebastian Gehrig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 15 The RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective Jacco Pekelder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Part V Epilogue
Chapter 16 The European 1960–70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chronology of Events of Protest in Europe 1968 Rolf Werenskjold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 356
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: June 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780857451071