The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War

Download or read book The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War written by Federico Finchelstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finchelstein tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. He focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century. He analyses the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the military junta's practices of torture and state violence (1976-1983), its networks of concentration camps and extermination.