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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 struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. Varon conveys the intense passions of the era--the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon's compelling interpretation of the logic and limits of dissent in democratic societies provides striking insights into the role of militancy in contemporary protest movements and has wide implications for the United States' current "war on terrorism." Varon explores Weatherman and RAF's strong similarities and the reasons why radicals in different settings developed a shared set of values, languages, and strategies. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the brutal and escalating nature of the West German conflict in the 60s and 70s, as well as the reasons why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of why violence develops within social movements, how states can respond to radical dissent and forms of terror, how the rational and irrational can combine in political movements, and finally how moral outrage and militancy can play both constructive and destructive roles in efforts at social change..
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The Urban Guerilla Concept
The first major ideological text from West Germany's most famous urban guerillas This document merits attention from anyone who wants to understand the motivation and ideology behind the beginning of a long and violent confrontation between the Red army Faction and the German state. Apart from setting out the justification for armed struggle this text touches on: the strength of the capitalist system in West Germany; the weaknesses of the revolutionary Left; the significance of the German student movement; the meaning and importance of internationalism; the necessity for taking a revolutionary initiative; the importance of class analysis and political praxis; the failure of parliamentary democracy and how this had the inevitable consequence of political violence; the factionalism of the German Left; and the organization and logistics of setting up an illegal armed struggle. Trnaslated and introduced by Anthony Murphy .
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WoW Dark Factions (World of Warcraft)
Crush the Alliance and Horde! Naga and satyrs stir in dark places. Goblins invent crazy devices The Atal'ai summon a bloodthirsty god. Azeroth is home to more than just the Alliance and Horde. Discover eight new races and fifteen factions. New game elements - classes, spells, technological devices, and the like - further enhance these characters. Contains eight new races, including naga, pandaren and satyrs. Contains nine prestige classes, including the brewmaster, death knight, and naga anomaly. Includes variant classes, racial iconic classes, and creature classes, allowing you to play just the sort of character you want. Brims with new feats, spells, magic items, technologi-cal devices, and other abilities and items to decimate your opponents. Contains information on the fifteen factions unaffiliated with the Alliance or Horde, including their leaders and strategies, narrated by famed dwarven explorer Brann Bronzebeard. Includes two adventures to challenge heroes of any affiliation..
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Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation
How does the Chinese banking sector really work? Nearly all financial institutions in China are managed by members of the Communist Party, yet economists and even those who engage the Chinese banking sector simply do not have a framework with which to analyze the links between banking and politics. Drawing from interviews, statistical analysis, and archival research, this book is the first to develop a framework with which to analyze how elite politics impact both monetary and banking policies. This book serves as an important reference point for all subsequent work on Chinese banking..
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Televisionaries: The Red Army Faction Story, 1963-1993
An irreverent chronological history and analysis of THE terrorist group that bombed and shot their way through the last three decades of Western capitalism. From student radicalism to Stammheim to Euro-terrorism, this is a concise history, which charts the rise and rise of the armed guerrilla group that launched a thousand T-shirts. Profusely illustrated throughout, with over thirty photographs. "We talked about Vietnam and then we moved onto other things..."—Hans Joachim Klein .
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Guild Wars Factions (Prima Official Game Guide)
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The Firenze Faction
Caleb Levi, former college basketball star turned history professor, is back for his sixth summer of research in Florence, Italy. While there he translates the reports of Niccolo Nannrone, a 15th century spy who served a politically ambitious cardinal, and learns of nefarious plots and brutal murders in the late 1400s. Then one day, to his great surprise, Caleb witnesses a death in the 21st century that mimics one he had just read about in Nannarone's latest report. Against his better instincts, Caleb looks into a possible connection between those two deaths some 500 years apart. He has barely started, however, when an assailant emerges from the darkness and attempts to kill him. This draws Caleb's fellow scholars to join him in a full-scale investigation. They soon are deep into the intrigues of 15th century Florence and unexpectedly a mystery from the World War II era in that city, all the time pursued by an array of assassins. But what started as a probe into the possible murders of two women eventually leads Caleb to a monstrous conspiracy--and a final life or death confrontation on the massive roof of Florence's magnificent cathedral, Il Duomo..
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