Research Catalog

Title

Prelude to revolution : France in May 1968 / Daniel Singer.

Author

Singer, Daniel, 1926-2000.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2013.

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Description

xiii, 434 pages; 20 cm

Summary

""Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets ablaze whole forests of desiccated cliches about 'the end of history' and 'the triumph of the market' in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists."-Mike Davis An essential firsthand account of the May 1968 upheaval in France."--

Subject

• Riots > Paris
• Student movements > Paris > History > 20th century
• HISTORY / Europe / France
• HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
• France > Politics and government > 1958-

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "First published in 1970 by Hill and Wang in New York. This edition published in 2013"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Meaning of May -- pt. Two Hidden Powder Keg -- University in Turmoil -- Society in Flux -- "A Class for Itself"? -- Dynamics of Youth, or Angry Young Men -- pt. Three Explosion -- Student Uprising (May 3-May 13) -- Workers Take Over (May 14-May 27) -- How Not to Seize Power (May 27-May 31) -- From General Strike to General Election -- pt. Four Fallout -- No Peasants on Their Backs -- Anarchy and Dual Power -- "New Proletarians"? -- Cultural Revolution -- Would-Be Soviets -- Negative Hero -- pt. Five In Search of the Future -- End of Marginalism -- Without a Model -- Unwithering State -- Tests for a Strategy -- International Dimension -- Age of Conflict or Age of Revolution?.

ISBN

• 9781608462735 (pbk.)
• 1608462730 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013022240

OCLC

• 812258562
• SCSB-11273146

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library