Anatomy of the Red Brigades by Alessandro Orsini

Anatomy of the Red Brigades by Alessandro Orsini

An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.

Anatomy of the Red Brigades successfully fills a gap in the scholarship by looking at a religious mindset when examining a form of terrorism that is not intrinsically connected to religion

-- Ryan Shaffer * Terrorism and Political Violence *

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 *

Are terrorists mad, bad, or a combination of the two? It takes a special sort of mind to prepare to kill large numbers of people on the basis of highly speculative political analysis. Orsini's remarkable book gets as close to any to understanding this sort of thinking.

-- Lawrence D. Freedman * Foreign Affairs *

The book will be relevant to scholars not just interested in collective violence, but scholars who are interested in the dogmatization process of terrorists groups, of political ideology, and support for dictators in the contemporary world. This is a uniquely organized book, and it is my assessment that scholars in the future will be comparing it with Christopher Browning's monograph on Nazi holocaust, Ordinary Men.

* Mobilization *

This is a compelling and accessible book that would benefit both scholars and practitioners in the field of terrorism and political violence. The Red Brigades were one of the most important terrorist groups in modern history. Alessandro Orsini has made an enormous scholarly contribution that explains why. In this way, Orsini's study is not only an explication of the Red Brigades, their background and modus operandi, but is also an examination into the timeless nature of terrorism itself.

* Perspectives on Politics *

Alessandro Orsini is professor of political sociology in the Faculty of Political Science, LUISS University of Rome "Guido Carli." He also teaches at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and is the author of several books in Italian.

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ISBN 13	9780801449864
ISBN 10	0801449863
Title	Anatomy of the Red Brigades
Author	Alessandro Orsini
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2011-03-25
Number of pages	328
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 2010 Premio Acqui Storia A 2011.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.