1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky
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Author: Mark KurlanskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-11
ISBN: 0345455827
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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If we are to draw equivalent lessons from both the Prague Spring and street protests in the U.S., as Kurlansky attempts in this book, the connection should depend on more than that they simply occured in the same year. The reader is owed specifics, yet is rewarded with little more than vague platitudes. Prague was a protest against a government which not only lacked representation and dissent, but prohibited it. Chicago et al were protests against decisions made by a representative government, however flawed, resulting from open debate. A bigger difference could hardly be imagined. But Kurlansky does see striking differences, albeit only in the post-1968 world. The Soviet bloc began it's decent to oblivion, while the capitalist West avoided the same. His disappointment in the latter is not hard to glean, though what manner of "revolution" he envisions is never rendered to specifics, likely for good reason. But who needs details when false equivalencies and empty platitudes will do?
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