Power & Protest – Global Revolution & the Rise of Detente (OIP): Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente - Hardcover

Suri, Jeremi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674010310 ISBN 13: 9780674010314

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In this book Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of d?tente. Though reflecting traditional balance of power considerations, d?tente thus also developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism. In the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures simultaneously inspired activists and constrained leaders; within a few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale. Suri examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther Kung Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He describes connections between policy and protest from the Berkeley riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive unrest in Wuhan, China. Designed to protect the existing political order and repress movements for change, d?tente gradually isolated politics from the public. The growth of distrust and disillusion in nearly every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation and unprecedented public skepticism toward authority.

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Review

This is a remarkable book which should command a good deal of attention. Not only does Jeremi Suri come up with a striking interpretation of detente but he has thought-provoking things to say about how to do international history. Above all, perhaps, Suri has produced a deeply researched monograph based on a large range of primary sources in several languages which also tackles large issues. There seems little doubt that Suri's book will stir the pot of cold war studies...This book is a major achievement and is eminently worth arguing with.--Richard Crockatt"Cold War History" (02/01/2005)

About the Author

JEREMI SURI is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0674010310
• ISBN 13: 9780674010314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432