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During the past century revolutionary organizations have, in the name of mankind, sought the violent transformation of the existing international framework. Their aim has been the liberation of nations submerged by fate or repressed by coercion and the destruction of the entire nation-state system, considered a passing phase of history. Even those revolutionary organizations dedicated to a specific national struggle have tended to see the triumph of their cause as a step toward a conflict-free world society in which the basic aspirations of all will have been achieved. In the heyday of anticolonial revolts nationalism per se tended to dominate the ideology of the various movements. In the last decade, with fewer countries to liberate from a foreign oppressor and more to be liberated from domestic regimes supported by worldwide imperialism, the universal ideological context of the revolutionary struggle has become more pronounced. Today most, but by no means all, revolutionary movements proclaim an allegiance to world revolution; nevertheless, as in the past, most continue to act as covert governments or illegal armies, underground or in exile, and to represent not the universal but the particular. Such organizations may have deep sympathies, even specific alliances, with fellow national revolutionary organizations or legitimate governments, but they are often comparable, if not parallel, to normal international arrangements. Even the most militant movements in the vanguard of world revolution, despite all their paraphernalia of antinational ideology, are nearly always established on a national basis and act as alternative national regimes. At best, revolution in one country may be actually allied with similar revolutions, but rarely is it submerged in a fully integrated, universal transnational movement.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- FOREWORD TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE -- PART 1 THE RISE AND DECAY OF THE IRGUN: The Jabotinsky Years -- PART 2 THE NIGHTS OF DESPAIR: Avraham Stern and the Men Without Names -- PART 3 THE REVOLT: Menachem Begin: "We Fight, Therefore We Are" -- Chapter 1 The Impact of Insurrection, 1943-1945 -- Chapter 2 The United Resistance, 1945-1946 -- Chapter 3 A War of Attrition, 1946-1947 -- Chapter 4 From the Great Prison Escape To Lake Success, May-November 1947 -- PART 4 THE UNDECLARED WAR -- Chapter 1 The Arabs Attack, December 1947-March 1948 -- Chapter 2 The Jews Attack, March 1948-May 1948 -- PART 5 THE WAR FOR ISRAEL -- EPILOGUE -- SOURCES -- INDEX

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE "I've Been Stabbed!" The Assassination of Henry IV of France -- PART I MURDER OF THE MIGHTY -- Chapter 1 Killing No Murder -- Chapter 2 Killing as Murder -- Chapter 3 Killing as Politics: War and Order, Murderous Legitimacies -- Chapter 4 Killing by the State Authorized Murder -- Chapter 5 Killing as Politics: The Rebels -- INTERMEZZO I -- PART II TO STRIKE AT THE STATE: Patterns of Political Murder -- INTERMEZZO II -- PART III THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF REVOLUTIONARY ASSASSINATION -- Chapter 1 Ogro, Moro, Ewart-Biggs, and Schleyer: Murder in the Streets of Europe -- Chapter 2 The Past as Prologue -- SOURCES -- INDEX