Rome was an epicenter of social and political conflicts that shook the Italian peninsula in the 1970s. Mathias Heigl's microhistorical investigation of key confrontations in and around Italy's capital challenges traditional interpretations. His praxeologically emphasized and urban historically grounded analysis presents the Italian 1970s not as "years of lead," but as a period of diverse social upheavals. The combination of urban and movement historical perspectives allows for the positioning of movement actors within their specific social and cultural contexts, thereby illuminating the dynamics of Roman urbanization 'from below.'.