A definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and '70s, The Golden Horde brings together texts and fragments of the time woven together with original commentary. The volume covers the generational turbulence of Italy's postwar period, the transformations of Italian capitalism, the new analyses by worker-focused intellectuals, the student movement of 1968, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the extra-parliamentary groups of the early 1970s, the Red Brigades, the formation of a radical women's movement, the development of Autonomia, and the build-up to the watershed moment of the spontaneous political movement of 1977. The book features writings by Sergio Bologna, Umberto Eco, Elvio Fachinelli, Lea Melandri, Danilo Montaldi, Rossana Rossanda, Paolo Virno and others, as well as an in-depth introduction outlining the work's composition and development.