{"product_id":"red-internationalism-9781316513798","title":"Red Internationalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Overture: Lenin's shadow; 1. Internationalism; 2. Anti-imperialism; 3. Revolution; 4. Repression; 5. Crisis; 6. Human rights; Coda: return of the repressed.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738560672087,"sku":"9781316513798","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781316513798.jpg?v=1720049471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-internationalism-9781316513798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}