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Power And Protest : Global Revolution And The Rise Of Detente
Author: Jeremi Suri
ISBN: 9780674010314
Binding: Hard Cover
Publishing Year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Number of Pages: 432
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In this book Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of d?tente. Though reflecting traditional balance of power considerations, d?tente thus also developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism. In the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures simultaneously inspired activists and constrained leaders; within a few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale. Suri examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther Kung Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He describes connections between policy and protest from the Berkeley riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive unrest in Wuhan, China. Designed to protect the existing political order and repress movements for change, d?tente gradually isolated politics from the public. The growth of distrust and disillusion in nearly every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation and unprecedented public skepticism toward authority.
About Author
JEREMI SURI is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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