Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition

by Richard Drake

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010361
• ISBN13: 9780674010369
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.6"