HISB93H3 Lecture 11: lecture 11
Document Summary
May in paris - hope and onto the streets with workers - the degree of which. fundamentally nothing changed (wanted overhaul of bourgeois system) Prague - protesting for fundamental human rights and were brutally crushed by. The rise of the welfare state - the case of britain. The "social market" - germany"s path to economic modernity. The gulag and the "smokestack economies" of eastern europe. Decolonization and europe"s abandonment of a global political mission - the case of algeria. How the economy becomes a mobilizing force of which people could have pride in after politics seemed to have gotten europe embroiled in an absolutely devastating world conflict. Economics became something europe could be dependent on. What happens to colonies once europe abandon a political project. 1968 a year of global revolution working class organizations and students coordinated their efforts to a mass general strike invasion by leaders of warsaw pact.
