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Protest in the Vietnam War Era

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Sedlmaier

    1. School of History, Law and Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

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  • Explores the dynamic emergence and transformation of protest movements around the world during the Vietnam War period
  • Explores protest movements in the core capitalist countries, the socialist bloc and the Global South
  • Analyses the relationships between the numerous interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Protest in the Era of the Indochina Wars: Upending Centre and Periphery

    • Alexander Sedlmaier
    Pages 1-10

  4. State Socialism: Second-World Solidarity, Propaganda, and Humanitarianism from Above and from Below

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. The Soviet Public and the Vietnam War: Political Mobilization, Public Organizations, and Activism, 1965–1973

      • Julie Hessler
      Pages 85-111

    3. Between Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Communism: Poland and International Solidarity with Vietnam

      • Idesbald Goddeeris
      Pages 113-139

    4. The Engineering of Political Equidistance and Its Consequences: The Vietnam War and Popular Protest in Yugoslavia

      • Sabine Rutar, Radina Vučetić
      Pages 141-169

  5. The Capitalist Core: First World Activists Reach Out to Emancipatory and Revolutionary Movements Across the Globe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Vietnam War Protest and Solidarity in West Germany

      • Freia Anders, Alexander Sedlmaier
      Pages 173-205

    3. France’s Two Vietnams: Intellectual Protest Politics in Perspective

      • Silja Behre
      Pages 207-234

    4. The Japanese New Left, the Vietnam War, and Anti-Imperial Protest

      • Alex Finn Macartney
      Pages 235-261

  6. The Global South: Emancipation, Anti-Colonialism, Third Worldism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. The Vietnam War, Maoism, and the Cultural Revolution: Propaganda and Mobilization in the People’s Republic of China

      • Kazushi Minami
      Pages 265-291

    3. The Vietnam War, Protest, and Democratization in South Korea

      • Tae Yang Kwak
      Pages 293-323

    4. The Vietnam War in Africa

      • Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre
      Pages 325-362

    5. Revolutionary Soulmates? Cuba’s Slow Discovery of Vietnam

      • Antoni Kapcia
      Pages 363-389

    6. Singing in Solidarity: The Latin American Protest Song Movement and the Vietnam War

      • Matías Hermosilla
      Pages 391-422

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 423-447
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This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.

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"With admirable global range, this refreshingly insightful volume explores the importance of international protests against the Vietnam War for the radicalising of national politics. By emphasizing the transnational circulation of ideas and people so vital to that history, it challenges older notions of centre and periphery, while decentring the United States from the story." (--Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA.)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of History, Law and Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

    Alexander Sedlmaier

About the editor

Alexander Sedlmaier is Reader in Modern History at Bangor University, UK, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He works on contemporary German, European and North American history and is author of Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014).

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