Chapter 28 Review: Suggested References
The history-changing events of the 1960s to 1989 ran the gamut from life-changing technology to dramatic political upheavals—all of them chronicled in the innovative books below. The story of television in post-uprising Czechoslovakia illustrates that even dictatorships used this new technology to “soften” its control.
Bolton, Jonathan. Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism. 2012.
Bren, Paulina. The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. 2010.
Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Rights Movement. 2011.
Chaplin, Tamara. Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television. 2007.
*Freedman, Estelle B. The Essential Feminist Reader. 2007.
Gildea, Robert, James Mar, and Anette Warring, eds. Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt. 2013.
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Hadley, Louisa, and Elizabeth Ho, eds. Thatcher & After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture. 2011.
Harvey, Brian. Russian Planetary Exploration: History, Development, Legacy, Prospects. 2007.
Horn, Gerd-Rainer. The Spirit of 68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976. 2007.
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. 2013.
Kenney, Padraic. Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989. 2002.
Kotkin, Steven. Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. 2010.
McLaren, Angus. Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies. 2012.
Ouimet, Matthew J. The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy. 2003.
Peniel, E. Joseph. Stokely: A Life. 2014.
Suri, Jeremy. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente. 2003.
Tignor, Robert. Anwar Sadat. 2015.