Abandoning the usual Cold Waroriented 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.

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

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.TheParti 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 Ceausescus 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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