Apostles and Agitators
Subtitle: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: July 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780674010369
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Italy; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Europe - Italy; History & Theory - Radical Thought; History / Italy; Europe - General; Communism; Socialism
Description: "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."--Jacket.