Italian Neofascism : : The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation / / Anna Cento Bull.

• VerfasserIn: Bull, Anna Cento,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating with the massacre in Bologna, on 2 August 1980. Making use of the literature on national reconciliation and narrative psychology theory, this book examines the fight over the 'judicial' and the 'historical' truth in Italy today, through a contrasting analysis of judicial findings and the 'narratives of victimhood' prevalent among representatives of both the post- and the neo-fascist right.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Part I Villains? The Judicial Truth -- Introduction to Part I -- CHAPTER 2 The Role of Italian Neofascism in Stragismo and the Strategy of Tension -- CHAPTER 3 The Role of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Structures -- CHAPTER 4 Interpretations of the Strategy of Tension in Accordance with Judicial Findings -- Conclusion to Part I -- Part II Victims? The Truth According to the Neo- and Postfascist Right -- Introduction to Part II -- CHAPTER 5 Narratives of Victimhood: The Right’s Reconstructions and Interpretations of Stragismo -- CHAPTER 6 The Self-narratives of Extreme-right Protagonists of the Political Conflict -- Conclusion to Part II -- CHAPTER 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index