1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies Audiobook (Free)

A major fresh history of 1 from the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary range.

The year 1968 saw a fantastic selection of protests across a lot of the western world. A few of these had been genuinely revolutionary-around ten million French workers went on hit and the complete state teetered in the brink of collapse. Others had been more easily contained, but had serious longer-term implications-terrorist groups, feminist collectives, homosexual rights activists could all trace important root base to 1968.

1968 is a striking and original attempt half a century later showing how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our very own period. 1968 pursues the storyplot into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent types of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 as well as the brutal reaction that brought the era to an end.