Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Picking Up the Pieces-1968 between Memory and Theory Revolutions and Revolutionaries, Lessons of the Years of Crises 1968 in Poland: Spoiled Children, Marxists, and Jews In Search of a New Left Rethinking the Political Scientifically: Brief Reflections on 1968 by a Child of the Seventies What Did They Think They Were Doing? The Political Thought of (the West European) 1968 Revisited Thinking Politically: Raymond Aron and the Revolution of 1968 in France The Divided Spirit of the Sixties Part Two: Lessons and Legacies of 1968 The Year 1968 and Its Results: An East European Perspective The Prague Spring 1968: Post-Communist Reflections From Revisionism to Dissent: The Creation of Post-Marxism in Central Europe after 1968 Post-Marxist Mentality and the Intellectual Challenge to Ideology after 1968 Yugoslavia's 1968: The Great Surrender 1968 Romania: Intellectuals and the Failure of Reform Part Three: 1968 in Pieces: Case Studies of Transformation Betrayed Promises: Nicolae CeauA escu, the Romanian Communist Party, and the Crisis of 1968 The Kremlin, the Prague Spring, and the Brezhnev Doctrine 1968 and the Terrorist Aftermath in West Germany The Prague Spring: Resistance and Surrender of the PCI Dont Push Us, Comrade!A"-De Gaulle in Bucharest Conclusion: 1968-Did It Matter? Contributors Index

About the Author

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics and director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park) and President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.

Reviews

The volume blazes fresh trails through exploring the intellectual developments that contributed to 1968 and how the landscape of ideas was transformed by the events of that year. The innovative use of biographical information, especially of intellectuals, is one of the great strengths of this volume which breaks new ground in terms of empirical analysis as well as the evaluation of long-term intellectual developments. This is a weighty and sophisticated contribution to understanding the battle of ideas and the flow of events that shaped the ideological evolution of Europe in the 1960s and beyond. Tom Gallagher, University of Bradford