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(continued on inside back cover) 000376779_77-4.indd0376779_77-4.indd 44-6-6 331/01/191/01/19 44:43:43 PPMM INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY OF RUSSIAN, EURASIAN, AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Volume 77 Number 4 • WiNter 2018 CONTRIBUTORS vii ABSTRACTS x CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: 1968 Making a Long Story Longer: Eastern Europe and 1968 as a Global Moment, Fifty Years Later Judit bodNár 873 Let’s Turn Hegel from His Head onto His Feet: Hopes, Myths, and Memories of the 1960s in Tamás Cseh’s Musical Album “A Letter to My Sister” Anna Szemere 881 Utopias and “Normality”: 1968 Revisited Fifty Years On JAcqueS rupNik 890 Postmodernity’s Unexpected Arrival: 1968 as Breakdown in Geoculture GeorGi m. derluGuian 897 Occupy College Street: Student Radicalism in Kolkata in the Sixties Ranabir SAmAddAr 904 MANAGING REGIONAL DIVERSITY Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk, Cluster Guest Editors Russian “Federalism”: Illiberal? Imperial? Exceptionalist? ANdrey MakArycheV ANd AlexANdrA