Honors Theses
Date of Award
2004
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Croft Institute for International Studies
First Advisor
Chiarella Esposito
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This thesis concerns the Brigate Rosse, an Italian terrorist organization that was active from the late-1960s to the mid-1980s, the networks through which the Brigate Rosse chose to work, how these networks helped/hindered the success of the Brigate Rosse, and how the murder of Aldo Moro marked the turning point in the BR s success. To gather data, T looked at primary sources, such as communications that were sent by the BR and government documents, as well as secondary sources which examined the actions of the Brigate Rosse, the networks they maintained, and the social and political circumstances of Italy spanning the period from the 1960s through the 1980s. My findings show that the networks the BR had with the extra-parliamentary leftist organizations did contribute to the success of the BR throughout the 1970s. The findings also show that the BR’s murder of Aldo Moro negatively affected these networks. The conclusion reached is that the Moro murder was the definitive marker for the downfall of the Brigate Rosse, in that the murder resulted in the BR’s loss of the networks that had contributed to its success up until the point of the murder.
Recommended Citation
Geraci, Courtney Janos, "Networking Is not Everything: The Factors that Led to the Eventual Decline of the Brigate Rosse" (2004). Honors Theses. 2210.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2210
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