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Anatomy of the Red Brigades

by Alessandro Orsini (2011)

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"In the first English edition of a book that has won critical acclaim and major prizes in Italy, Alessandro Orsini contends that the dominant logic of the Red Brigades was essentially eschatological, focused on purifying a corrupt world through violence. Only through revolutionary terror, Brigadists believed, could humanity be saved from the putrefying effects of capitalism and imperialism ... Orsini has devised a microsociological theory that allows him to reconstruct the group dynamics leading to political homicide in extreme-left and neonazi terrorist groups. This 'subversive-revolutionary feedback theory' states that the willingness to mete out and suffer death depends, in the last analysis, on how far the terrorist has been incorporated into the revolutionary sect"--Jacket.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreAnatomy of the Red Brigades Lead Character

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