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1968, after 40 years

1968: the global legacy

Fred Halliday
The celebration of a year of protest misses its silences and failures - and thus its true impact

Germany's 1968 debate

Paul Hockenos
German collective memory is in overdrive. But the most valuable legacy of the protest years is being forgotten

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Vietnam’s 1968: a dissident’s shadow

Sophie Quinn-Judge
Vietnam’s official memory has no place for Hoang Minh Chinh, an honourable critic who embraced democracy

May 68: France's politics of memory

Patrice de Beer
The fortieth anniversary of the student revolt traps the French in the cunning of history

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Rethinking the kinetics of 1968

Todd Gitlin
An Italian film depicting brothers torn by political commitment captures the heart of an epic year

The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968

Neal Ascherson
The spark of the great student revolts of 1968 ignited in Warsaw. Neal Ascherson traces - and recalls - the "Polish March" (archive)

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