Dan La Botz

What Went Wrong? the Nicaraguan Revolution

A Marxist Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN's lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9789004291300
• ISBN-10: 900429130X
• Artikelnr.: 45201165

Autorenporträt

Dan La Botz is the author of ten books on labour unions, social movements and politics in the United States, Mexico, and Indonesia. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, was a Fulbright scholar in Mexico, and currently teaches in the colleges of the City University of New York and in the Labour Studies program of the Murphy Institute. He is a co-editor of New Politics and has been for more than twenty years the editor of Mexican Labor News and Analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms
Preface: A Marxist Analysis
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Happened to the Nicaraguan Revolution?
1. Nicaragua: A Nation but Not a State (From the Beginning to 1893)
2. The Struggle to Construct a Sovereign State: Zelaya and Sandino
(1893-1932)
3. The Somoza Dynastic Dictatorship (1932-61)
4. The Founding of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (1962-78)
5. The Sandinistas Revolution (1979)
6. The Sandinistas in Power (1979-84)
7. The Sandinistas and the Contra War (1985-90)
8. Violeta Chamorro: A New Ruling Class, a New State, a New Economy
(1990-6)
9. Alemán and Bolaños: Corruption in Power (1995-2006)
10. The Ortega Government (2006-)
Epilogue: Results and Prospects
Bibliography
Index