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  title info:
    title: Twentieth-century Latin American revolutions
  name:
    name part: Becker, Marc
    name part: (Professor of history)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. This clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies, the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution, the 1944-1954 Guatemalan Spring, the 1952-1964 MNR-led revolution in Bolivia, the Cuban Revolution that triumphed in 1959, the 1970-1973 Chilean path to socialism, the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua in power from 1979-1990, failed guerrilla movements in Colombia, El Salvador and Peru and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela after Hugo Chávez's election in 1998. Marc Becker opens with a theoretical introduction to revolutionary movements, including a definition of what "revolution" means and an examination of factors necessary for a revolution to succeed. He analyzes revolutions through the lens of those who participated and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions and the outcomes of those political changes. Each case study provides an interpretive explanation of the historical context in which each movement emerged, its main goals and achievements, its shortcomings, its outcome and its legacy. The book concludes with an analysis of how elected leftist governments in the twenty-first century continue to struggle with issues that revolutionaries confronted throughout the twentieth century.
  table of contents: Theories of revolution -- Biography: José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) -- Document: José Carlos Mariátegui, "The New Peru" 1929 -- Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) -- Biography: Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) Document: Emiliano Zapata, "Plan of Ayala," 1911 -- Guatemalan Spring (1944-1954) -- Biography: Jacobo Arbenz (1913-1971) -- Document: The final speech of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, June 27, 1954 -- Bolivia's National Revolution (1952-1964) -- Biography: Juan Lechín Oquendo (1914-2001) -- Document: The Union Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (FSTMB), "Pulacayo Theses," 1946 -- Cuban Revolution (1959-) Biography: Fidel Castro (1926-) -- Document: "First declaration of Havana," September 2, 1960 -- Chilean road to socialism (1970-1973) -- Biography: Salvador Allende Gossens (1909-1973) -- Document: "Economic development program of the Popular Unity," 1970 -- Nicaraguan Sandinistas (1979-1990) -- Biography: Carlos Fonseca Amador (1936-1976) -- Document: "The historic program of the FSLN,"1969 -- Guerrilla warfare -- Biography: Che Guevara (1928-967) -- Document: Che Guevara, Guerrilla warfare, 1960. -- Venezuela' Bolivarian Revolution (1999- Biography: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954-013) Document: Hugo Chávez, World Social Forum, 2005 -- Socialisms of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  note: Marc Becker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: cl-----
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: Latin America
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    geographic: Latin America
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: F1414 .B43 2017
  classification: 980.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Latin American perspectives in the classroom
  identifier: 9781442265868
  identifier: 1442265868
  identifier: 9781442265875
  identifier: 1442265876
  identifier: 2017011418
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170424
    record change date: 20171016112454.0
    record identifier: in00003881603