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The Revolutionists de Jason Burke

The Revolutionists

Autor Jason Burke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 oct 2025

Observăm în The Revolutionists o reconstrucție metodică a unei decade seismice, bazată pe studii de caz care au redefinit securitatea globală: de la deturnările de avioane orchestrate de Leila Khaled până la operațiunile complexe ale grupării Baader-Meinhof. Jason Burke nu se limitează la o cronologie aridă, ci extrage din arhive guvernamentale declasificate și din interviuri directe cu protagoniștii — fie ei atacatori sau agenți secreți — detaliile unei rețele transnaționale unite de respingerea imperialismului vestiv. Această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists cu date noi din perioada Războiului Rece, oferind o perspectivă imersivă asupra modului în care logistica terorii a evoluat în anii '70. Dacă lucrarea lui Colin J Beck analizează teoretic intersecția dintre mișcările sociale și violență, Burke ancorează aceste concepte în realitatea dramatică a evenimentelor de la München sau Entebbe. Reținem, de asemenea, o analiză fină a tranziției ideologice: autorul demonstrează cum eșecul mișcărilor revoluționare seculare a lăsat un vid ocupat ulterior de extremismul religios. Structura narativă, deși respectă rigoarea academică impusă de editura The Bodley Head, adoptă un ritm alert, transformând cele peste 700 de pagini într-o analiză politică ce se citește cu tensiunea unui roman polițist. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea rădăcinilor conflictelor contemporane, oferind o claritate necesară asupra modului în care radicalismul de ieri a modelat geopolitica de astăzi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847926067
ISBN-10: 1847926061
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 52 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru studenții la științe politice și cititorii pasionați de istorie contemporană, The Revolutionists oferă o perspectivă rară asupra mecanismelor interne ale radicalismului. Câștigați acces la mărturii directe și documente anterior secrete, înțelegând nu doar evenimentele, ci și psihologia din spatele figurilor care au dominat știrile anilor '70. Este o lecție despre evoluția violenței politice de la ideologie la fanatism.

Notă biografică

JASON BURKE, the International Security correspondent for the Guardian, has been a foreign correspondent for almost 30 years, reporting from the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and Africa.
He is one of the foremost writers on terrorism and the author of four critically acclaimed books: The New Threat from Islamic Militancy, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; The 9/11 Wars, 'the best overview of the 9/11 decade in print' (The Economist); the ground-breaking Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam and On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World.

He lives near London.

Descriere scurtă

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries held the world for ransom

In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out. Ambitious, networked, and far-reaching, new armed groups terrorized the world with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage missions, leaving governments scrambling to cope. Their motives were as diverse as their methods. Some sought to confront Israel, others to topple Western imperialism or battle capitalism; a few simply sought adventure or power. Among them were the unflappable young Leila Khaled, sporting jewelry made from ammunition; the maverick Carlos the Jackal, with his taste for cigars, fine dining, and designer suits; and the radical leftists of the "Baader-Meinhof Gang" and the Japanese Red Army. Their attacks forged a lawless new battlefield thirty thousand feet in the air, evading the reach of security agencies, policymakers, and spies alike. Their operations rallied activists and networks in places where few had suspected their existence, leaving a trail of chaos from Bangkok to Paris to London to Washington, D.C.

Veteran foreign correspondent Jason Burke provides a thrilling account of this era of spectacular violence. Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, still-secret documents, and original interviews with hijackers, double agents, and victims who continue to grieve their loved ones, The Revolutionists provides an unprecedented account of a period that definitively shaped today's world and probes the complex relationship between violence, terrorism, and revolution. From the deserts of Jordan to the Munich Olympics to the Iranian Embassy siege in London and the Beirut bombings of the early 1980s, Burke invites us into the lives and minds of the perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the government agents and top officials who sought to foil them. Charting, too, such shattering events as the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese civil war, he shows how, by the 1980s, a campaign for radical change led by secular, leftist revolutionaries had given way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come.

Driven by an indelible cast of characters moving at a breakneck pace, full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is the definitive account of a dark and seismic decade.

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Immersive, globe-spanning and full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is an unprecedented account of a seismic decade that transformed the modern world. In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal in shades and designer suits, and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. United by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and 'Western imperialism', they unleashed a series of audacious attacks that brought governments to their knees and glued the world to their televisions in morbid fascination. Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, secret documents, and original interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us into the lives and minds of the perpetrators of these often-deadly operations. Through their eyes - and the eyes of the unrelenting agents who hunted them down - he uncovers a dark, complex world of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to radical change at any cost. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and packed with revelations about iconic events such as the deadly attack on the Munich Olympic, Israel's raid on Entebbe, the Iranian revolution and the rise of Islamic extremism, this is a sweeping, scrupulously reported historical narrative with the pace and suspense of a thriller. The Revolutionists pitches the reader into these tumultuous times. Ultimately, it shows how a campaign led by secular, leftist revolutionaries gave way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come. It is impossible to understand the world today without reading this history.