Dan La Botz

What Went Wrong? the Nicaraguan Revolution

A Marxist Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468232
• ISBN-10: 1608468232
• Artikelnr.: 47590312

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 for more than twenty years has been 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