La parabola di Prima linea: violenza politica e lotta armata nella crisi italiana (1974-1979)

The topic of the thesis is the Prima linea experience. Prima linea is one of the most important organizations within the context of the far left armed struggle in seventies Italy. In the absence of previous studies concerning the organization, this work aims to reconstruct, for the first time and as a whole, the story of the organization from 1974, when the long period of his foundation begun, to 1979, when the rapid growth of his influence in the political and social Italian scene corresponds with the first omens of difficulty. Through new archival sources, the thesis try to fit Prima linea's chronicle in the wider context of Italian late seventies. Great attention is given to the relations between Prima linea, State and social movements, as well as to the reasons behind Prima linea project failure.