Introduction -- A birthplace of modern terrorism -- The uniform as symbolic target -- Civilians under fire -- Ideology abused -- Terrorists as common criminals -- Camouflaged suicide -- A fatal attraction -- When terrorists become state leaders -- The culture of death
Summary
Explores psychological incentives for aggressive behavior and ideologically motivated hostility, as they evinced themselves in the early 20th-century Russian political setting, and poses questions related to the universality of contemporary terrorist practices and to apply psychohistorical means of inquiry to modern and postmodern terrorism in various parts of the world, particularly the Middle East
