Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies
In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States 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 in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states
History
1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages) : illustrations
9780520930957, 9781417545384, 0520930959, 1417545380
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Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Key Acronyms
Introduction
1. 8220;Agents of Necessity8221;: Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the Turn to Violence
2. The Importance of Being Militant: The Days of Rage and Their Critics
3. 8220;Hearts and Minds8221;: 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. 8220;Democratic Intolerance8221;: The Red Army Faction and the West German State
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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