The Revolutionary Romanticism of May 1968

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Löwy
Ostrich ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216
Author(s):  
W. R. Siegfried ◽  
Cecily Niven ◽  
J. M. Winterbottom ◽  
E. M. van Zinderen Bakker

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Charles Tilly
Keyword(s):  

Some bad ideas refuse to disappear. For an exceptional specimen, we can turn to the notion that rebellions occur mainly when a sudden downturn intercepts a curve of rising expectations. The gap between what people expect and what they receive, goes the argument, impels people to attack. At least since Tocqueville, the idea has come into play as explanation of revolutions, rebellions, and movements of protest. Luther Carpenter applies it to the student-worker movement—or, more exactly, the great workers’ strike of mid-May 1968.


2020 ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Marina G. Smolyaninova ◽  

The article is about Lyuben Karavelov (1834–79), the preeminent Bulgarian writer who worked in the era of the Bulgarian national revival, an author of tales, short stories, ethnographic essays and political articles. Almost all of his creative life was spent in exile: he lived in Russia, the Serbian Principality, Austria-Hungary and Romania and published his works not only in Bulgarian, but also in Russian and Serbian, influencing the development of literary movements wherever he was located. In his creative evolution, he moved towards a realistic representation of life, overcoming the tendency typical of Bulgarian writers at that time to write with elements of sentimentalism and revolutionary romanticism. He wrote the best Bulgarian story of that era, “Bulgarians of Old times”. Many of his works reflected the influence of N.V. Gogol, N.G. Chernyshevsky and M. Vovchok, and contributed to the formation of realism not only in Bulgarian but also in Serbian literature. His influence would have been much greater if he had not died at the age of 45 from tuberculоsis immediately after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke.


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