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- Title
Bringing Vietnam Home: The Vietnam War, Internationalism and May '68.
- Authors
MOHANDESI, SALAR
- Abstract
The Vietnam War made May '68 possible. The war prompted young radicals to experiment with new forms of struggle, reinvent radical internationalism and ultimately embrace revolution. Transnational exchanges and a changing political conjuncture pushed some radicals to argue that the best way to aid their Vietnamese comrades abroad was to bring the war home to France. Their efforts to translate the exemplary struggles in Vietnam into a domestic idiom helped trigger the events of May '68. Seen in this transnational context, May '68 was one front among many in a broader, worldwide anti-imperialist struggle, led primarily by the Vietnamese. In France, Vietnam became a universal symbol of revolt, supercharging other struggles, while radicals elsewhere were inspired to translate the French May into their own national contexts. This article shows just how profoundly Vietnam shaped the radical imaginary of the "68 years".
- Subjects
MAY Insurrection, France, 1968; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; INTERNATIONALISM; RADICALS; FRENCH politics &; government, 1958-1969; PEACE movements -- History; FRENCH foreign relations; COMMUNISTS; POLITICAL participation; 20TH century French history
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 2, p219
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-4322930