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

by Max Elbaum · 2002

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Revolution in the Airis 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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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 380 pages

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