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Alessandro Orsini - Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists - 9780801449864 - V9780801449864
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Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

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Description for Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists Hardback. Translator(s): Nodes, Sarah J. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8. BIC Classification: HRAM; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a concentrated strike against the heart of the State, the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late 1990s, a new group of violent anticapitalist terrorists revived the name Red Brigades and killed a number of professors and government officials. Like their German counterparts in the Baader-Meinhof Group and today's ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449864
SKU
V9780801449864
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About Alessandro Orsini
Alessandro Orsini is Director of the Observatory on International Security at LUISS University of Rome, Department of Political Science, and Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Anatomy of the Red Brigades, also from Cornell. Sarah Jane Nodes is a translator who lives in Rome.

Reviews for Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
Alessandro Orsini has presented us with a book of high scholarly distinction. Anatomy of the Red Brigades is a tour de force of intellectual history and a major attempt to explain both the Italian experience with terrorism and terrorism in general. -Journal of Cold War Studies (reviewing the Italian edition) What if the terrorism that shook the Western world ... Read more

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