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The time of the rebels : youth resistance movements and 21st century revolutions / Matthew Collin.

Title
The time of the rebels : youth resistance movements and 21st century revolutions / Matthew Collin.
Author
Collin, Matthew
Publication
London : Serpent's Tail, 2007.

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Description
216 p. : 1 map; 22 cm.
Summary
At the start of the 21st century, a wave of revolution moved across the former Communist east. Uprisings in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine swept aside unpopular undemocratic governments. At the heart of these revolutions was a new kind of youth movement. Groups like Otpor, Kmara and Pora staged spectacular and dramatic protests, using humour, satire and the power of popular culture to undermine the authorities. The Time of the Rebels is the inspiring story of those movements ₆ participants tell how they created popular resistance movements, defying threats, violence and mass arrests in an attempt to change their countries and the world. Using first-hand accounts and eyewitness reportage, the book also tells how in other countries, such as Belarus and Azerbaijan, fierce clampdowns by the authorities thwarted similar attempts to stage revolutions.
Subject
  • Protest movements > Former Soviet republics
  • Protest movements > Former communist countries
  • Youth > Former communist countries > Political activity
  • Youth > Political activity > Former Soviet republics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: the young pioneers -- Living the resistance: Serbia -- A red rose (with thorns): Georgia -- The yellow and the black: Ukraine -- Orange dreams and blue jeans: Kyrgystan, Azerbaijan, Belarus ... and beyond.
ISBN
  • 9781852429645 (pbk.)
  • 185242964X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008360560
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library