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Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War

Case Studies from Germany, Italy and Other Western European States

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Berger

    1. Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  2. Christoph Cornelissen

    1. Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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  • Explores the influence of Marxist theories in the political cultures of the Left in Western Europe, focusing on Germany and Italy
  • Covers the 1968 student movement, the New Left, the peace movement, the women’s movement and the solidarity movement
  • Contributes to the growing body of work that takes transnational approaches to twentieth-century social movements

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Marxism and Social Movements: A Forgotten History?

    • Stefan Berger, Christoph Cornelissen
    Pages 1-32

  3. Marxist Historical Cultures, ‘Antifascism’ and the Legacy of the Past: Western Europe, 1945–1990

    • Arnd Bauerkämper
    Pages 33-64

  4. Marxist Historians, Communist Historical Cultures and Transnational Relations in Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s

    • Thomas Kroll
    Pages 65-87

  5. Left-Wing Historiography in Italy During the 1950s

    • Gilda Zazzara
    Pages 89-113

  6. Remembering the Revolution: Neo-Marxist Interpretations of the German Revolution 1918/1919—A Challenge for Cold War Historiography

    • Ralf Hoffrogge
    Pages 115-139

  7. Politically Engaged Scholarship in Social Movement Studies

    • Dieter Rucht
    Pages 141-162

  8. ‘…Two Monstrous Antagonistic Structures’: E. P. Thompson’s Marxist Historical Philosophy and Peace Activism During the Cold War

    • Stefan Berger, Christian Wicke
    Pages 163-185

  9. The Historical Cultures of the 1960s’ West German Peace Movement: A Learning Process?

    • Alrun Berger
    Pages 187-216

  10. Fugacious Marxisms: Some Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Marxism in the West German Student Movement (1961–1972)

    • Benedikt Sepp
    Pages 217-234

  11. Dispersion and Synchronization: Surge and Crises of the New Left in West German Leftist Periodicals in 1959 and 1976

    • David Bebnowski
    Pages 235-255

  12. The Hour of the Gun: Anti-imperialist Struggle as the New Left’s Hope of Salvation in Germany and Italy

    • Petra Terhoeven
    Pages 257-287

  13. Third Worldism in Italy

    • Guido Panvini
    Pages 289-308

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 309-322
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About this book

This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist Parties in Western Europe, but also influenced a range of new social movements that emerged in the 1970s in the wake of the 1968 student rebellions. The generation of 1968 was strongly influenced by neo-Marxist ideas that they subsequently carried into the new social movements. The volume asks how Marxist historical cultures influenced third world movements, anti-fascist movements, the peace movement and a whole host of other new social movements that signaled a new vibrancy of civil society in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards. 






Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Stefan Berger

  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

    Christoph Cornelissen

About the editors

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK.


Christoph Cornelissen is Professor of Contemporary History at Goethe University, Frankurt a. M., Germany. He is also the Director of the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Germany, Italy and Other Western European States

  • Editors: Stefan Berger, Christoph Cornelissen

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03804-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03803-8Published: 02 September 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03804-5Published: 21 August 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6559

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 322

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Social History, Political History

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