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Anatomy of the Red Brigades : The Religious Mind-Set of Modern Terrorists.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anatomy of the Red BrigadesDDC classification:
  • 363.3250945
LOC classification:
  • HV6433.I82
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 Müntzer -- 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 -- Appendix: Red Brigades and Black Brigades -- A Note on Method -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Summary: An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 Müntzer -- 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 -- Appendix: Red Brigades and Black Brigades -- A Note on Method -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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