Forty years ago, students of the Faculty of Sociology in the Paris suburb of Nanterre seized the administrative building. Red May began in France - a youth uprising against modern capitalism, against a society of meaningless production and consumption. The end of the 60s is the era of youth protests in Western countries, the Third World, and even in countries of “real socialism.” The formation of the ideology of Red May is devoted to the book by A. N. Sidorov “J.-P. Sartre and libertarian socialism in France.”

The monograph analyzes the left movement of post-war France through the prism of the relationship with him of the outstanding French writer and philosopher - J.-P. Sartre. Sartre's polemics with Camus, Aron, Castoriadis, Lefort and other left-wing and liberal opponents are examined. The activities of such far-left groups as the post-Trotskyist Socialism or Barbarism group and the Maoist Proletarian Left are described in detail. The monograph also examines the background, course and consequences of the movements of the famous Red May of 1968.

The work is of interest to historians, students, graduate students in the humanities and anyone interested in the recent history of socialist thought.