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1 online resource (222 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Interpreting Terrorism: A Case-study of Action directe; 2 French Traditions of Political Violence and Protest; 3 The Elusive Formula: Gauchisme, May 1968 and Action directe; 4 The History of Action directe: From Gauchisme to Nihilism; 5 The Ideological Trajectory of Action directe: Radicalization and Violent Protest; 6 Conclusions; Appendices; 1. Chronology of Action directe 1979-90; 2.1 Attacks by Action directe, 1979-87; 2.2 Types of Political Violence in France |
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3. Murders and Attempted Murders by Action directe, 1979-874.1 Attacks by the Groupe Bakounine-Gdansk-Paris-Guatemala-Salvador; 4.2 Black War; 4.3 Action directe Trials and Imprisonment; 4.4 Action directe Commando Units; 5.1 Communiqué numéro 7, 18 March 1980; 5.2 Number of Attacks by Action directe, 1979-87; 5.3 Machine-gun Attacks by Action directe, 1979-87; 5.4 Number of Bombings by Action directe, 1979-87; 5.5 Number of Murders by Action directe, 1979-87; 5.6 Political and Non-political Murders, 1979-87; 6.1 Motivations for Action directe International Attacks, 1982-87 |
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6.2 Motivations for Action directe National Attacks, 1982-87Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Action directe (Terrorist group : France)
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| SUBJECT |
Action directe (Terrorist group : France) fast |
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Terrorism -- France
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Terrorism
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135210427 |
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113521042X |
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