A European Youth Revolt

This is the first historical collection with a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective on youth, youth revolts and social movements in the 1980s, focusing on both Eastern and Western Europe, and on both political and subcultural movements.

Knud Andresen is Research Associate at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on the history of work and the workers movement in Germany, youth and the New Left. His most recent publications include: Triumpherzählungen. Wie Gewerkschafterinnen und Gewerkschafter über ihre Erinnerungen sprechen (2015); ed. with Linde Apel and Kirsten Heinsohn: Es gilt das gesprochene Wort. Oral History und Zeitgeschichte heute (2015); and ed. with Ursula Bitzegeio and Jürgen Mittag: Nach dem Strukturbruch? Kontinuität und Wandel von Arbeitsbeziehungen und Arbeits(welten) seit den 1970er Jahren (2011). Bart van der Steen is Lecturer at Leiden University's Institute of History, Netherlands. His research focuses on interwar labor movements and New Social Movements from 1968 to the present. His most recent publications include: ed. with L. van Hoogenhuijze and A. Katzeff; The City is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to thePresent (2014) and with R. Blom; Een banier waar geen smet op rust: Geschiedenis van de trotskistische beweging in Nederland (2015).