Italian Neo-Fascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Non-Reconciliation

By Anna Cento Bull

Book Overview

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating with the massacre in Bologna, on 2 August 1980. Making use of the literature on national reconciliation and narrative psychology theory, this book examines the fight over the 'judicial' and the 'historical' truth in Italy today, through a contrasting analysis of judicial findings and the 'narratives of victimhood' prevalent among representatives of both the post- and the neo-fascist right.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845453352
• ISBN13: 9781845453350
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"