Brutal state repression of a peasant revolt fueled regional nationalism

Evidence

The form taken by the repression, both military and legal, gave a great impetus to the cause of Sardinian nationalism, and it was to this cause that Gramsci first adhered. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Suppression driving nationalist mobilization — parallels how colonial state violence produces national consciousness, a mechanism central to later readings of anti-colonial nationalism. — connects to: Grünberg’s thousand-page thesis examined peasant emancipation in Central Europe — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 77; Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements.; Impunity following the Adana Massacre fueled a nationalist Pan-Turkism movement — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 18 (+4 more)