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In March 1968 tens of thousands of students across Poland left their classrooms to protest against the communist regime. The Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, or PUWP), which had been in power for two decades, responded by publicly accusing the …

Scholarship has put “the recorded” and “the live” in a state of constant tension, in which archive was posited in opposition to performance, or embodied performance against archive. Here, the archive is posited as a lasting receptacle of artifacts from the past, producing histor…

This dissertation investigates the protest cultures of social revolutionary groups during and after the events of 1968 in France and West Germany before inquiring into how political officials and police responded to the difficulties of maintaining public order. The events of 196…