Bringing the War Home The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies

Name: Bringing the War Home The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
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ISBN: 9780520241190

ISBN-10: 0520241193

ISBN-13: 9780520241190

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jeremy Peter Varon

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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. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. Varon conveys the intense passions of the era--the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 407
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Key Acronyms


Introduction



"Agents of Necessity": Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the Turn to Violence



The Importance of Being Militant: The Days of Rage and Their Critics



"Hearts and Minds": The Antiwar Movement, Violence, and the Critical Mass



The Excesses and Limits of Revolutionary Violence



Deadly Abstraction: The Red Army Faction and the Politics of Murder



"Democratic Intolerance": The Red Army Faction and the West German State


Conclusion


Notes


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Index