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

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a creeping or a lowintensity 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 neofascist right.