1st Edition
Promises of 1968 Crisis, Illusion and Utopia
Edited By Vladimir Tismaneanu
Copyright 2011
460 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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 headways of scholarship and new evidence on this historical period. A significant departure from earlier... Read more
Vladimir Tismaneanu: Introduction; PART ONE: Picking Up the Pieces: 1968 between Memory and Theory, PART TWO: Lessons and Legacies of 1968, PART THREE: 1968 in Pieces: Case Studies of Transformation, Contributors, Index
Biography
Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).
