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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index.
Contents	Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Key Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. 8220;Agents of Necessity8221;: Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the Turn to Violence -- 2. The Importance of Being Militant: The Days of Rage and Their Critics -- 3. 8220;Hearts and Minds8221;: The Antiwar Movement, Violence, and the Critical Mass -- 4. The Excesses and Limits of Revolutionary Violence -- 5. Deadly Abstraction: The Red Army Faction and the Politics of Murder -- 6. 8220;Democratic Intolerance8221;: The Red Army Faction and the West German State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Plates.
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.
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Subject	Weather Underground Organization.
	Weather Underground Organization.
	Weatherman (Organization)
	Weatherman (Organization)
	Rote Armee Fraktion.
	Rote Armee Fraktion.
	Weather Underground Organization.
	Weatherman (Organization)
	Rote Armee Fraktion.
	Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Radicalism.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Radicalism -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
	Germany (West)
	New Left -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	New Left.
	New Left -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
	Political violence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Political violence.
	Political violence -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Varon, Jeremy, 1969- Bringing the war home. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520230329 0520241193 (DLC) 2003019002 (OCoLC)53075467
ISBN	9780520930957 (electronic book)
	0520930959 (electronic book)
	9780520241190 (cloth)
	0520241193 (cloth)
	128235745X
	9781282357457
	0520230329
	9780520230323
	0520241193 (paperback)
	9780520241190 (paperback)

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

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