Review
[A]n invaluable survey of [the far right] . . . in post-1945 Italy--its ideologies and myths, its tactics, attempted coups, and acts of terrorism. What he has unearthed is often terrifying. -- Review
Product Description
This text presents research by a social scientist on the radical right-wing movements in Italy since 1945. The right-wing violence of the 1980s was, the book acknowledges, permitted to a certain degree in the hope that popular opinion would mobilize behind the existing political arrangements. With the decline of violent activity on both extremes of the political spectrum in the early 1980s, the theory and practice discussed by the author seemed to have entered a dormant stage. However, the book places in context the recent resurgence of neo-fascist forces in Italy, and of the so-called New Right throughout Europe, together with the rise of fundamentalism in many parts of the world.
