Table of Contents

Introduction Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert and Detlef Junker; Part I. Tet and Prague: The Bipolar System in Crisis: 1. Tet and the Crisis of Hegemony George C. Herring; 2. Tet on TV: American nightly news reporting Chester J. Pach Jr; 3; The American economic consequences of 1968 Diane B. Kunz; 4.The Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev doctrine Mark Kramer; 5. Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of Détente Gottfried Niehart; 6. China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 Nancy B. Tucker; Part II. From Chicago to Beijing: Challenges to the Domestic Order: 7. 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America Alan Brinkley; 8. March 1968 in Poland Jerzy Eisler; 9. May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey; 10. A laboratory of post-industrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany Claus Leggewie; 11. The Third World Arif Dirlik; Part III. Ask the Impossible!: Protest Movements of 1968: 12. The revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy Stuart J. Hilwig; 13. The changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the 'new middle classes' (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) Gerd Rainer Horn; 14. The women's movement in East and West Germany Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck; 15. 1968: a turning point in American Race Relations? Manfred Berg; 16. The revival of Holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States Harold Marcuse; 17. The nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s Lawrence Wittner; Part IV. Epilogue: 18. 1968 and 1989: caesuras, comparisons, and connections Konrad H. Jarausch.