Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and the revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies
In this comparison of left-wing violence in the US and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals turned to armed struggle in efforts tooverthrow their states
Print Book, English, 2004
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2004
History
432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780520230323, 9780520241190, 0520230329, 0520241193
56448474
List of Key Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Agents of Necessity": Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the Turn to Violence 2. The Importance of Being Militant: The Days of Rage and Their Critics 3. "Hearts and Minds": The Antiwar Movement, Violence, and the Critical Mass 4. The Excesses and Limits of Revolutionary Violence 5. Deadly Abstraction: The Red Army Faction and the Politics of Murder 6. "Democratic Intolerance": The Red Army Faction and the West German State Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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