Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies /

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 s...

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Main Author: Varon, Jeremy, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index.
ISBN:9780520930957
0520930959
1417545380
9781417545384
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.