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Anatomy of the Red Brigades : The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists /

The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Orsini, Alessandro, 1975-
Otros Autores: Nodes, Sarah J. (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Pedagogy of Intolerance
  • The Revolutionary Vocation
  • Violence as the Only Way
  • The "Binary Code" Mentality
  • Political Violence and Social Marginality
  • Eschatological Politics
  • 2. The Sacralization of Politics
  • The "Fanaticism of a New Religion"
  • Radical Catastrophism
  • The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity
  • The Hatred of Reformists
  • 3. Toward the Bloodshed
  • Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect
  • The Red Brigades' Organization Plan
  • The Blood Crime and Its "Story"
  • The Path to Bloodshed
  • Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect
  • The Detachment from the Surrounding World
  • 4. The Genesis of the Red Brigades
  • The Red Brigades' Social Roots
  • The "Cultural Lag" Theory
  • When Were the Red Brigades Born?
  • The Red Brigades: "Imbeciles" or Real Revolutionaries?
  • Antonio Gramsci and the "Hour of Redemption"
  • The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades
  • An Oxymoron: The "Leninist-Reformist" Party
  • 5. The Masters of the Red Brigades
  • Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas Muntzer
  • John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary
  • The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement
  • The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment
  • Babeuf: "The world has plunged into chaos"
  • Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream
  • The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism
  • 6. The Purifiers of the World in Power
  • Lenin and State Terrorism
  • The Bolshevik Revolution and the "Victims of the Victims"
  • The Gulag, or The Promise Kept
  • Mao and the Myth of the "New Man"
  • The Cambodian Revolution
  • Not a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red Brigadist.