1st Edition

The Rise And Fall Of Italian Terrorism

By Leonard Weinberg, William L Eubank Copyright 1988
155 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

"Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s Italy suffered one of the most severe waves of domestic political terrorism experienced by any Western democracy. During those years, Italian terrorists committed more than 12,000 acts of political violence. The 1978 assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro and the 1980 bombing of the railroad station in Bologna, in particular, attracted... Read more
Introduction -- The Causes of Italian Terrorism: Conspiracies, Conflict and History -- Black Terrorism: The Neo-Fascists, 1969-1984 -- Red Terrorism: The Revolutionaries, 1969-1984 -- Who Were the Terrorists? -- Terrorist Attacks -- The Response of the State to the Terrorist Threat -- Conclusions

Biography

Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada.