Italian neofascism
Subtitle: the strategy of tension and the politics of nonreconciliation
By: Anna Cento Bull.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781845453350
Subjects: Fascism -- Italy; Terrorism -- Italy; Italy -- Politics and government -- 1976-1994
Description: "During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. This was due both to the ideological hatred which pervaded political activists both on the right and on the left and to the deliberate exacerbation of these divisions on the part of occult strategists. This book examines the fight over the "judicial" and the "historical" truth it Italy today, through a contrasting analysis of judicial findings and the 'narratives of victimhood' prevalent among representatives of both the post- and the neo-fascist right."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-178)) and index.
Table of contents: title: Villains? the judicial truth; title: The role of Italian neofascism in stragismo and the strategy of tension; title: The role of the armed forces and intelligence; title: Interpretations of the strategy of tension in accordance with judicial findings; title: Victims? the truth according to the neo- and postfascist right; title: Narratives of victimhood: the right's reconstructions and interpretations of stragismo; title: The self-narratives of extreme-right protagonists of the political conflict.