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5 Facta Universitatis, Series: L. & Pol. 1 (2007)

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FACTA  UNIVERSITATIS
Series: Law and Politics Vol. 5, N°1, 2007, pp. 1 - 23




STUDENT'S MOVEMENTS OF 1968 - UNFINISHED REVOLUTION

                          UDC 329.78 (497.11) 1968



                                  Milan   Petrovik

                       Faculty of Law, University of Nis, Serbia


     Abstract. This study first defines the concepts of the left and the right as political
     phenomena. Then, after touching upon the student and black movement in the United
     States ofAmerica, it presents the basic features and development of student movements
     in the Federal Republic of Germany and France in the late 1960s. Most of the study is
     dedicated to the revolutionary commotion at Belgrade University in 1968, in which the
     author of this study personally participated. In a fully new way, the text interprets the
     activities of the Yugoslav President Tito and a group of professors and teaching
     assistants from Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy gathered around the journal Praxis
     (The Praxis Group') during this commotion. The study also provides a contribution to
     the theory of revolution.
     Key words:  the left and right, student movements, revolution as a social contract,
                 revolutionary leader.


   It has been forty years since student movements - among  them that of Belgrade Uni-
versity students - reached their peak. The author of this text personally participated in
those events - as a student of Belgrade University's School of Law he was a member  of
the School's Action Board.  However,  this text is neither historiographical nor autobio-
graphical; the experience of the author, and other sources, provide just a grounds for a
comprehension  from  the viewpoint of the theory of state and political sociology, striving
to uncover the whole  beneath the particulars. The method employed  is, therefore, com-
parative, where the student movement  at Belgrade University is considered parallel with
student movements  in France and West  Germany  and, to a point, the United States. This
way, we  are solving an original problem, because there are practically no papers of the
similar kind.
   However,   in order for the 1968 student movements  to be understood, one  needs to
first shed light on the essence of the political phenomena of left and right. They are
incessantly discussed in political life and propaganda. Yet, here, compared to such  a
global interest, scientific understanding is falling behind significantly.


Received December 13, 2008

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