The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution
Title | The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Prevost |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349252921 |
The Sandinista revolution brought dramatic social, economic and political changes to Nicaragua in the 1980s, but in the wake of the electoral defeat of the FSLN in 1990 the revolution has struggled to survive in the face of challenges from the Chamorro administration, the US government, and the International Monetary Fund. Gains of the revolution in health care, education, Atlantic Coast autonomy, agrarian reform, and other areas have been systematically eroded. However, significant efforts have also been mounted, especially in grass roots organizing and by women's organizations, to protect the revolution's achievements. Through a series of articles based on current research, seven experts on contemporary Nicaragua draw a balance sheet on the gains of Sandinista revolution achieved by 1990 and assess the current status of the revolutionary project.
The Red and the Black
Title | The Red and the Black PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Dore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Nicaragua |
ISBN |
The domestic undermining of the Sandinista agricultural cooperative movement
Title | The domestic undermining of the Sandinista agricultural cooperative movement PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Schneider Kreyche |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Land reform |
ISBN |
The Jaguar Smile
Title | The Jaguar Smile PDF eBook |
Author | Salman Rushdie |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2003-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780312422783 |
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians and warriors who were poets; a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. His perceptions always heightened by his special sensitivity to “the views from underneath,” Rushdie reveals a land resounding with the clashes between history and morality, government and individuals. With a new preface by the author.
Breaking Faith
Title | Breaking Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Humberto Belli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
From the John Holmes Library Collection.
Latin America’s Cold War
Title | Latin America’s Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Hal Brands |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674055284 |
For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, Latin America’s Cold War delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the period—the Cuban revolution and its aftermath; the recurring cycles of insurgency and counter-insurgency; the emergence of currents like the National Security Doctrine, liberation theology, and dependency theory; the rise and demise of a hemispheric diplomatic challenge to U.S. hegemony in the 1970s; the conflagration that engulfed Central America from the Nicaraguan revolution onward; and the democratic and economic reforms of the 1980s. Most important, the book chronicles these events in a way that is both multinational and multilayered, weaving the experiences of a diverse cast of characters into an understanding of how global, regional, and local influences interacted to shape Cold War crises in Latin America. Ultimately, Brands exposes Latin America’s Cold War as not a single conflict, but rather a series of overlapping political, social, geostrategic, and ideological struggles whose repercussions can be felt to this day.
Revolutionary Studies
Title | Revolutionary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Le Blanc |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2018-01-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608467821 |
With characteristic clarity and insight, historian and activist Paul Le Blanc offers a sweeping survey of the key contributions of Marxist theory, exploring its relevance to twentieth-century revolutionary movements and figures. Paul Le Blanc Has written on and participated in the US labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of numerous books.