Death orders
Subtitle: the vanguard of modern terrorism in revolutionary Russia
By: Anna Geifman
Publisher: Praeger Security International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780275997526; 9780275997533
Description: Explores psychological incentives for aggressive behavior and ideologically motivated hostility, as they evinced themselves in the early 20th-century Russian political setting, and poses questions related to the universality of contemporary terrorist practices and to apply psychohistorical means of inquiry to modern and postmodern terrorism in various parts of the world, particularly the Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A birthplace of modern terrorism; title: The uniform as symbolic target; title: Civilians under fire; title: Ideology abused; title: Terrorists as common criminals; title: Camouflaged suicide; title: A fatal attraction; title: When terrorists become state leaders; title: The culture of death.