Anarchist Terrorism and Global Diasporas, 1878–1914

Richard Bach Jensen

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2015, vol. 27, issue 3, 441-453

Abstract: During the quarter century before the First World War, anarchist terrorism was often blamed on the impact of anarchist agitators on naïve immigrants. This article seeks to investigate the truth of this claim, focusing particularly on Italian emigrants, but also looking at some examples of Spanish, French, and Russian emigrants. My conclusion is that, with a few exceptions, radicals emigrated, but emigration did not create radical terrorists. A particularly good example of this can be found by examining the large Italian emigration to Argentina. At most, the emigrant experience may have heightened a pre-existing radicalism or given more precise configuration to its violent expression.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2015.1032032

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