Papers from a conference organized by the German Historical Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker -- Tet and the crisis of hegemony / George C. Herring -- Tet on tv: U.S. Nightly News reporting and presidential policy making / Chester J. Pach -- American economic consequences of 1968 / Diane B. Kunz -- Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine / Mark Kramer -- Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of détente / Gottfried Niedhart -- China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. 1968 and the unraveling of liberal America / Alan Brinkley -- March 1968 in Poland / Jerzy Eisler -- May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- Laboratory of postindustrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany / Claus Leggewie -- Third world in 1968 / Arif Dirlik -- Revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy / Stuart J. Hilwig -- Changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the "New Working Class" (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) / Gerd-Rainer Horn. Women's movement in East and West Germany / Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck -- 1968: a turning point in American race relations? / Manfred Berg -- Revival of holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States / Harold Marcuse -- Nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s / Lawrence S. Wittner.