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• catalog abstract ""Why Did Young, Middle-Class Radicals in prosperous democratic societies attempt to overthrow their governments by armed force in the 1960s and 1970s? How did they carry out this program of violence? These questions form the basis of this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany. Using a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, Jeremy Varon reconstructs the motivations and ideologies of America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction. Varon conveys the heated passions of the era -- the moral certainty, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon explores the strong similarities between the Weather Underground and the RAF and the reasons for their developing shared values, language, and strategies in spite of their different settings. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the escalating brutality of the West German conflict in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of how social movements come to embrace violence, 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. Varon's narrative is compelling and has wide implications for the United States's current "war on terrorism." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b13195687.
• catalog contributor b13195688.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""Agents of necessity": Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the turn to violence -- The importance of being militant: the days of rage and their critics -- "Hearts and minds": The antiwar movement, violence, and the critical mass -- The excesses and limits of revolutionary violence -- Deadly abstraction: the Red Army Faction and the politics of murder -- "Democratic intolerance": The Red Army Faction and the West German State.".
• catalog description ""Why Did Young, Middle-Class Radicals in prosperous democratic societies attempt to overthrow their governments by armed force in the 1960s and 1970s? How did they carry out this program of violence? These questions form the basis of this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany. Using a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, Jeremy Varon reconstructs the motivations and ideologies of America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction. Varon conveys the heated passions of the era -- the moral certainty, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon explores the strong similarities between the Weather Underground and the RAF and the reasons for their developing shared values, language, and strategies in spite of their different settings. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the escalating brutality of the West German conflict in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of how social movements come to embrace violence, 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. Varon's narrative is compelling and has wide implications for the United States's current "war on terrorism." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-373) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 394 p., [14] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0520230329 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520241193 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "9781417545384 (electronic bk.)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Germany (West)".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "322.4/2/0943 22".
• catalog subject "HN90.R3 V37 2004".
• catalog subject "New Left Germany (West) History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "New Left United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Political violence Germany (West) History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Political violence United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Radicalism Germany (West) History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Radicalism United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Rote Armee Fraktion.".
• catalog subject "Weather Underground Organization.".
• catalog subject "Weatherman (Organization)".
• catalog tableOfContents ""Agents of necessity": Weatherman, the Red Army Faction, and the turn to violence -- The importance of being militant: the days of rage and their critics -- "Hearts and minds": The antiwar movement, violence, and the critical mass -- The excesses and limits of revolutionary violence -- Deadly abstraction: the Red Army Faction and the politics of murder -- "Democratic intolerance": The Red Army Faction and the West German State.".
• catalog title "Bringing the war home : the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and the revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies / Jeremy Varon.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".