Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation

by Anna Cento Bull

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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.

  • ISBN10 0857450425
  • ISBN13 9780857450425
  • Publish Date 1 January 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Berghahn Books