Michael Y. Dartnell

Action Directe

Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780714642123
• ISBN-10: 0714642126
• Artikelnr.: 22187813

Autorenporträt

Dartnell, Michael Y.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Interpreting Terrorism: A Case-study of Action directe
2. French Traditions of Political Violence and Protest
3. The Elusive Formula: Gauchisme
May 1968 and Action directe
4. The History of Action directe: From Gauchisme to Nihilism
5. The Ideological Trajectory of Action directe: Radicalization and Violent Protest
6. Conclusions
Appendices
Bibliography
Index