''Terrorism in Italy from 1945 To Date'' is a book written by

Giovanni Pellegrino Giovanni Pellegrino (born 5 January 1939 in Lecce) is an Italian politician. Born in Lecce and a lawyer by profession, he was a Senator of the Republic from 1990 with the Italian Communist Party and the Democrats of the Left to 2001. He also pr ...

, an Italian lawyer and politician. It discusses the political situation in

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from the revival of

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in 1945 until the present day.

, who for many years was President of the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism and an expert on

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

in Italy, argued that in Italy there was a low-intensity

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, beginning from 1945 to date between the

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and

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, and between

and

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. This "war" reached its peaked between 1945 and 1949 after

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.
With the writer Giovanni Fasanella he coauthored a book, ''La Guerra Civile'' (the Civil War) wherein he expressed his opinion on the seeming 60 years long low intensity civil war in Italy.:Giovanni Fasanella, Giovanni Pellegrino, La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. This book x-rays the specific Italian situation in contra distinction to other European countries, especially Spain and Ireland. According to the authors, while these two European countries have similar terror situations, they however differ in their political engagements and precise causes of terrorism different from Italy: #

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with the Basque ethnic conflict and #

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with a long ethnic conflict and religion-political conflict. The time frame between 1943 till date is spaced over 11 chapters, and is divided into 4 groups, corresponding to 4 time periods.

Chapters

#The book has an introduction, 11 chapters, one analytic index, one book index. #The introduction: "Una storia non conoscibile" based about an unknown History. #Chapter 1: "La Volante rossa", about communist terrorism after the World War II. #Chapter 2: "Atlantici d'Italia", about structures in Italy favorable to Atlantic politics. #Chapter 3: "Il compromesso democratico", about an agreement between Communists and Democrats. #Chapter 4: "La rottura dell'equilibrio", about the crisis of the agreement. #Chapter 5: "La guerra civile a bassa intensità", about the low intensity civil war. #Chapter 6: "Moro e Berlinguer", about the two important leaders. #Chapter 7: "I naufraghi del Titanic", about the old political class, not looking to the future. #Chapter 8: "La rottura del patto di indicibilità", about he breaking of the pact. #Chapter 9: "Il disegno tecnocratico", about one emerging technocratic politic class. #Chapter 10: "Fenomeno Berlusconi", about an emerging new leader. #Chapter 11; "Il sogno infranto della Bicamerale", about the failed attempt to create new politics regulation. #Indice analitico: Name Index #Indice del volume: Book Index

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Bibliography

* ''Fasanella Giovanni, Pellegrino Giovanni'', La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. – A book about the more as 60 years long low intensity civil war in Italy. * Aga-Rossi Elena – Zaslavsky Victor : Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca – Editore: Il Mulino – 2007.

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Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Terrorism In Italy 1945 to present History books about Italy * 20th century in Italy 21st century in Italy Italian books

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