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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819712203321

Autore

Hanshew Karrin <1975->

Titolo

Terror and democracy in West Germany / / Karrin Hanshew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-56442-0

1-139-88751-3

1-283-57494-2

1-139-55086-1

9786613887399

1-139-55582-0

1-139-55211-2

1-139-08412-7

1-139-54961-8

1-139-55457-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS010000

Disciplina

363.3250943/09045

Soggetti

Terrorism - Germany (West) - History

Democracy - Germany (West) - History

Germany (West) Politics and government 1945-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment



to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics.