ABSTRACT
While students at Moscow and St. Petersburg were attempting, generally unsuccessfully, to launch a massive student campaign against institu-- tional and state repression, students in the West were generating tremendous activist momentum, and student resistance energies con-- tinued to increase at a relatively stable pace in twentieth-century Europe. A fever for student organizations and demonstrations prolifer-- ated throughout the rest of the world in the first two decades of the twentieth century, however; Germany continued to lead the world in the production, upgrading, and networking of student organizations, although China ran a close second, and even surpassed Germany in exercises of direct action. The rage for student activism spread to a number of developing countries, including Argentina, Chile, BosniaHerzegovina, and Hungary. Philosophies advocating liberalism, the rights of the masses, and just revolts against political tyranny were used by students to legitimate struggles from China to Peru.
