Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

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Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.

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It should be required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements and for radicals of my generation who are trying to find out what went wrong. * Los Angeles Times *
The breadth of Elbaum's knowledge ... marks this book as an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship. * Village Voice *
If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig. -- Robin D. G. Kelley

Author Bio

Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a leader of one of the main new communist movement organisations. His writings have appeared in the Nation and the Guardian, among others.