Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987

by H. Stuart Hughes

Book Overview

Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968 suppressions in Prague and Paris: dissenters learned their lesson and began to pursue their goals in patient, realistic, limited fashion, eschewing violence and inflammatory ideological rhetoric. Yet theirs were the voices protesting what even conformists recognize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674821300
• ISBN13: 9780674821309
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"