This history of emancipatory left-wing politics examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s, on both sides of the Cold War divide.

Timothy Scott Brown is Professor and Chair of History at Northeastern University and Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a historian of twentieth-century transnational social movements. A two-time Fulbright Recipient, he is winner of the 2016 Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and a 2016-17 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. His books include West Germany in the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978 (2013), Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance (2009) and The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (2014) with Andrew Lison.

Introduction; 1. Mapping Sixties Europe; 2. Cold War(s), and hot; 3. Cultural revolutions; 4. 1968 in three Europes; 5. The search for social power; Afterword.