''Our Generation'' was an

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journal published in

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from 1961 through 1994. It was edited, over the entire run, by Dimitrios Roussopoulos.Our Generation: 1961 - 1994
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History and profile

The magazine's original title was ''Our Generation Against Nuclear War'', and its inaugural issue, in 1961, included an introduction by

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

, and a mission statement: "devoted to the research, theory, and review of the problems of world peace and directed toward presenting alternative solutions to human conflict". The founders were members of the Montreal branch of the Combined Universities' Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament, established by McGill University students during the late 1950s. By the late 1960s the journal was turning towards anarchist solutions, and by the early 1970s it had become a journal of anarchism and

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.Wagner Labor Archives: NYU
/ref> ''Our Generation'' ceased publication in 1994, after producing 24 volumes.

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Publisher's scanned archive of ''Our Generation''
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