Going dark: The secret social lives of extremists (Julia Ebner)
Review
Ico Maly
29/10/2020
6 minutes to read
Going Dark:The secret social lives of extremists is a well structured introduction to the global far right, and succeeds in bringing academic research to a broad audience.
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