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The preceding descriptions of the macro- and meso-conditions for (and characteristics of) the development of political violence in Italy and Germany at the end of the sixties and during the seventies can take us part of the way toward understanding political violence. But now we must take a further step and examine the phenomenon from another perspective: the micro-level. On the one hand, how did the activists perceive the external political conditions for protest and the evolution of movement organizations? And on the other, how did environmental characteristics and organizational processes affect the lives of the activists? Why did some of these activists radicalize their politics, sometimes – more often in Italy than in Germany – to the point of going underground?
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The preceding descriptions of the macro- and meso-conditions for (and characteristics of) the development of political violence in Italy and Germany at the end of the sixties and during the seventies can take us part of the way toward understanding political violence. But now we must take a further step and examine the phenomenon from another perspective: the micro-level. On the one hand, how did the activists perceive the external political conditions for protest and the evolution of movement organizations? And on the other, how did environmental characteristics and organizational processes affect the lives of the activists? Why did some of these activists radicalize their politics, sometimes – more often in Italy than in Germany – to the point of going underground?
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