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Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe
Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the ‘illiberal turn’ both in Europe and America. If we want to understand it, we need to look back into 1968 – the year that founded the cultural and political order of today’s world.
The book consists of the following four sections: '1968 and transnationality', '1968 and the transformation of meanings', 'Artistic representations of 1968', and '1968 and the European contemporaity'. This is followed by an afterword from the significant keynote speaker at the conference Unsettled 1968: Origins – Myth – Impact in June 2018 in Tübingen, Germany: Irena Grudzinska-Gross, herself a Polish ‘68er’, reflects upon the conference and leaves remarks on her 50 years of engagement with what happened in 1968.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
- Aleksandra Konarzewska, Michal Przeperski,
- Una Blagojevic,
- Adrian Matus,
- Szabolcs László,
- Victoria Harms,
- Adrian Chubb,
- Bartosz Gromko,
- Anna Nakai,
- Nina Seiler,
- Marie Schwarz,
- Andrzej Czyzewski,
- Dmitry Bochkov,
- Dominik Želinský,
- Irena Grudzinska-Gross,
1968: Myth and Impact
1968 and Transnationality
Worlds of Praxis: 1968, Intellectuals, and an Island in the Yugoslav Adriatic
‘The long 1968’ in Hungary
The Anti-Political Moment: Post-1968 Theories of Dissent in Regional and Global Perspective
1968 and the Transformation of Meanings
’68 on the Historians’ Mind: Eric Hobsbawm and Tony Judt
Public Sphere Pluralism in 1960’s West Germany
The Events of 1968 in the Eastern Bloc and the Italian Left Wing
Artistic Representations of 1968
Behind the Scenes of broadcasting March 68: Radio Free Europe and its Internal Disputes over the Defector Henryk Grynberg
Negated Community: The End of Communitarian Ideas in the 1968 Context of Artistic-Political Transformation
Disillusion and Utopia: Juraj Jakubiskos Works and Czechoslovak Society Following Prague Spring
1968 and the European Contemporaity
The Myths of March ’68: Negotiating Memory in Contemporary Poland against a Comparative Background
The ‘Prague Spring’: From Cultural Memory to Personal Trauma
Freedom from, or in Socialism? The Prague Spring and the Trauma of the Warsaw Pact Invasion in the Slovak Political Discourse
1968 Again
Index
Biography
Aleksandra Konarzewska is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen.
Anna Nakai is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University.
Michał Przeperski is a PhD researcher at Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw.
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