Terror and democracy in West Germany
In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of author...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Democracy made militant: the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2. Disobedient Germans: resistance and the extraparliamentary left
- 3. 'Mister Computer' and the search for internal security
- 4. The security state, new social movements, and the duty to resist;
- 5. The German autumn, 1977
- 6. Civility, German identity, and the end of the postwar