From Villains to Victims? The Self-narratives and Myth-making of Italian Neofascists after the Cold War

该研究调查了意大利著名新法西斯主义者最近的自我叙述，这些人在20世纪60年代和70年代参与了暴力和恐怖主义行为（所谓的“紧张战略”）。在回忆录、采访、法庭听证会和司法审判中，他们的叙述充斥着谎言、诽谤、捏造、人格暗杀和背叛。这项研究分析了他们讲的故事，他们为什么讲这些故事，以及他们是对谁讲的。该项目旨在证明他们的叙事使用神话和自我受害作为批判性重新评估的障碍，以重申价值体系的有效性，并重新打开政治活动的空间。

The research examines recent self-narratives by prominent Italian neo-fascists implicated in violent and terrorist acts during the 1960s and 1970s (the so-called 'strategy of tension'). Their narratives, as put forward in memoirs, interviews, court hearings and judicial trials, talk of lies, calumnies, fabrications, character assassination and betrayal. The research analyses the stories they tell, why they tell them and to whom they are addressed. The project aims to demonstrate that their narratives use myths and self-victimisation as barriers to critical reassessment, in order to reaffirm the validity of a value system and to re-open a space for political activism.