Horn has presented an impressive book in which he merges the many individual examples of liberation committees, freewheeling newspapers, and imaginative actions by various levels of official administrations and factory militants into a convincing overall picture. In doing so, he makes use of a lively, graphic, vivid language which captures the mood of this promising conjuncture - with a tendency to catchy formulations.
Gerd-Rainer Horn is Professor of History at Sciences Po, Paris, France, since 2013. He has previously taught at Western Oregon University, the University of Huddersfield, and the University of Warwick. His area of research expertise is the twentieth century history of transnational social movements in continental Western Europe.