A major fresh history of 1 of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary size.

The year 1968 saw a fantastic selection of protests across a lot of the , the burkha. Some of these were truly revolutionary-around ten million French workers went on hit and the whole state teetered over the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications-terrorist groups, feminist collectives, homosexual privileges activists could all trace important origins to 1968.

1968 is a striking and original attempt half of a century later showing how these occasions, which in a few ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are used now extraordinarily remote from our very own period. 1968 pursues the storyplot into the 1970s showing both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 and the brutal response that brought the era to a finish.