Introduction / Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker --

Tet and the crisis of hegemony / George C. Herring --

Tet on tv: U.S. Nightly News reporting and presidential policy making / Chester J. Pach --

American economic consequences of 1968 / Diane B. Kunz --

Czechoslovak crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine / Mark Kramer --

Ostpolitik: the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of détente / Gottfried Niedhart --

China under siege: escaping the dangers of 1968 / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker --

1968 and the unraveling of liberal America / Alan Brinkley --

March 1968 in Poland / Jerzy Eisler --

May 1968 in France: the rise and fall of a new social movement / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey --

Laboratory of postindustrial society: reassessing the 1960s in Germany / Claus Leggewie --

Third world in 1968 / Arif Dirlik --

Revolt against the establishment: students versus the press in West Germany and Italy / Stuart J. Hilwig --

Changing nature of the European working class: the rise and fall of the "New Working Class" (France, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia) / Gerd-Rainer Horn --

Women's movement in East and West Germany / Eva Maleck-Lewy and Bernhard Maleck --

1968: a turning point in American race relations? / Manfred Berg --

Revival of holocaust awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States / Harold Marcuse --

Nuclear threat ignored: how and why the campaign against the bomb disintegrated in the late 1960s / Lawrence S. Wittner --

1968 and 1989: Caesuras, comparisons, and connections / Konrad H. Jarausch.