The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. In this book, the author explores how the Uruguayan student movement of 1968 shaped leftist politics in the country for decades to come.

Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. MOBILIZATIONS Students Take to the Streets Coordinates of a Cycle of Protest On Violence 2. DISCUSSIONS The Unions and the Movement The Lefts and the Students Paths and Paradoxes of Revolutionary Action 3. CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS Militant Mystiques Youth Cultures More Nuances CONCLUSION. 1968 AND THE EMERGENCE OF A "NEW LEFT" Notes Bibliography Index

“Uruguay, 1968 is a jewel of a book. With rigor and passion, Markarian reveals the creativity, vitality, and bravura of the Uruguayan left, which captured the world's imagination in the 1960s and holds strong in the global memory of that turbulent decade. She also shows how so many assumptions about the era’s radicalism fail to describe the Uruguayan scene—for example, assumptions that the young and the old, or the militant and the communist left, rarely mixed. Markarian has given us a landmark study that forces us to rethink the histories of Uruguay, Latin America, and the global sixties.”—Jeremy Varon, The New School
“This terrific book sheds new light on the student activists at the heart of Uruguay’s 1968, which, as the author shows, was part of a broader global moment of youthful protest. Markarian moves beyond familiar myths to reconsider the ideas and practice of student politics alongside new currents of artistic expression, consumer culture, and sexuality that characterized the 1960s. Drawing on diverse sources, the author offers a creative and nuanced interpretation of a historical moment too often presented in black and white, and in so doing, she achieves a major advance in our understanding of Cold War Latin America.”—Eduardo Elena, University of Miami