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Book SynopsisThrough tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.
Trade Review'In this capacious transnational account, Mohandesi helps us see how shifting visions of Leninism and the Vietnam war were the critical fulcrums through which human rights came to displace anti-imperialism in 1970s French and American radical politics and the enduring significance of those transformations for the human rights project today.' Mark Philip Bradley, author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
'This is one of the very best recent manuscripts on the history of the Long Sixties and Seventies in any language. Well-written, well-informed and always challenging. Exemplary in its juxtaposition of internationalism, anti-imperialism and human rights, future scholars will be unable to avoid or ignore this pathbreaking work.' Gerd-Rainer Horn, author of The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943–1948
'In luminous prose and with incisive clarity, Salar Mohandesi's brilliant excavation of the rise and fall of radical anti-Vietnam War activism illuminates key strands of the 20th century: the power of Leninist anti-imperialism, the shifting shapes of internationalism, the rise of human rights, the appeal of self-determination, and the dynamics of transnational activism. Essential reading.' Barbara Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Overture: Lenin's shadow; 1. Internationalism; 2. Anti-imperialism; 3. Revolution; 4. Repression; 5. Crisis; 6. Human rights; Coda: return of the repressed.
