May Made Me – An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France P 268 p. 18
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2018 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the May-June 1968 events in France: a moment when it appeared that a major western nation could have become the site of a successful socialist revolution. This book is an eye-opening oral history of the events surrounding the uprising in France, addressing a number of key questions regarding the nature of the revolution, posed by its ultimate failure. Conducting a series of interviews with participants of the revolution, Mitchell Abidor centralises the voices of students and workers, as opposed to that of leaders. He treats May '68 not just as a mass event, but rather as an event driven by millions of individuals, achieving a mosaic human portrait of France both at the time of the events and since. The book is modelled on a similar inquiry conducted in 1897 by La Revue Blanche regarding the Paris Commune. In the case of May Made Me, the questions around which the book revolves are: What was your political experience prior to the events?; What led you to join them?; What was your central experiences?; Could the revolution have won?; What was its effect on you?; What was its impact on France? Abidor provides a compelling overview of the event and its aftershocks, marking the anniversary by reminding us of the pertinence of the events for activists today.