The Revolutionary Mystique And Terrorism In Contemporary Italy

Author : Richard Drake
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253057140
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy written by Richard Drake and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for political or social ends. Drake argues that a combination of socioeconomic factors and the influence of intellectual elites led to a sanctioning of violence by revolutionary political groups in Italy between 1969 and 1988. Drake explores what motivated Italian terrorists on both the Left and the Right during some of the most violent decades in modern Italian history and how these terrorists perceived the modern world as something to be destroyed rather than reformed. In 1989, The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy received the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies. It was awarded for the best book that year on Italian history. The book is reissued now with a new introduction for the light it might shed on current terrorist challenges. The Italians had success in combating terrorism. We might learn something from their example. The section of the book dealing with the Italian "superfascist" philosopher, Julius Evola, holds special interest today. Drake's original work takes on new significance in the light of Evola's recent surge of popularity for members of America's alt-right movement.

Author : Richard Drake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608205403
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy written by Richard Drake and published by . This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Drake
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674010361
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apostles and Agitators written by Richard Drake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organization, intimidated, maimed, and murdered on a wide scale. In this timely study of the ways in which an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance, examining its origins and internal tensions, the men who shaped it, and its impact and legacy in Italy. He illuminates the defining figures who grounded the revolutionary tradition, including Carlo Cafiero, Antonio Labriola, Benito Mussolini, and Antonio Gramsci, and explores the connections between the social disasters of Italy, particularly in the south, and the country's intellectual politics; the brand of "anarchist communism" that surfaced; and the role of violence in the ideology. Though arising from a legitimate sense of moral outrage at desperate conditions, the ideology failed to find the political institutions and ethical values that would end inequalities created by capitalism. In a chilling coda, Drake recounts the recent murders of the economists Massimo D'Antona and Marco Biagi by the new Red Brigades, whose Internet justification for the killings is steeped in the Marxist revolutionary tradition.

Author : Leonard Weinberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100030521X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise And Fall Of Italian Terrorism written by Leonard Weinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian democracy may not be as fragile as many of its observers feared or imagined. It has lasted more than twice as long as the Fascist dictatorship that preceded it. Since the end of the Second World War, Italy's citizens and their political leaders have had to overcome massive problems of both state and society that their counterparts in more tranquil parts of Europe have not encountered. The particular problem to which this book is devoted is that of political terrorism. This book deals with a large-scale and protracted outbreak of domestic terrorism. It is concerned with terrorist violence in Italy committed by Italians against other Italians, the purpose of which was to influence the course of that country's political life.

Author : Richard Drake
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674014817
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aldo Moro Murder Case written by Richard Drake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 had much the same effect in Italy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had in the U.S., with both cases giving rise to endless conspiracy theories. Drake provides a detailed portrait of the tragedy and its aftermath as complex symbols of a turbulent age in Italian history.

Author : Vittorfranco S. Pisano
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817985530
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Subversion and Violence in Contemporary Italy written by Vittorfranco S. Pisano and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814731550
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Sun written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties. In thoughtful and incisive essays, the authors draw on decades of experience to examine such wide-ranging issues as how legal error should be handled, the death penalty, reasonable doubt, racism in American and South African courts, women and the constitution, and government benefits. Contributors: Richard S. Arnold, Martha Craig Daughtry, Harry T. Edwards, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Betty B. Fletcher, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Lord Irvine of Lairg, Jon O. Newman, Sandra Day O'Connor, Richard A. Posner, Stephen Reinhardt, and Patricia M. Wald.

Author : Denis Mack Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108954
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Italy written by Denis Mack Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic historical text on Italy

Author : Mark Gilbert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810872102
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The a to Z of Modern Italy written by Mark Gilbert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy is a country that exercises a hold on the imagination of people all over the world. Its long history has left an inexhaustible treasure chest of cultural achievement. The historic cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice are among the most sought-after destinations in the world for tourists and art lovers, and Italy's natural beauty and cuisine are rightly renowned. Italy's history and politics are also a source of endless fascination. Modern Italy has consistently been a political laboratory for the rest of Europe. In the 19th century, Italian patriotism was of crucial importance in the struggle against the absolute governments reintroduced after the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15. After the fall of Fascism during World War II, Italy became a model of rapid economic development, though its politics has never been less than contentious and its democracy has remained a troubled one. The A to Z of Modern Italy is an attempt to introduce the key personalities, events, social developments, and cultural achievements of Italy since the beginning of the 19th century, when Italy first began to emerge as something more than a geographical entity and national feeling began to grow. This is done through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a map, a bibliography, and some 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent individuals, basic institutions, crucial events, history, politics, economics, society, and culture.

Author : Alessandro Orsini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801449864
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of the Red Brigades written by Alessandro Orsini and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.