Sandinistas : a moral history /

"Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sierakowski, Robert J., 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional > History. Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. Revolution (Nicaragua : 1979) Nicaragua > Politics and government > 1979-1990. Nicaragua > History > Revolution, 1979 > Moral and ethical aspects. Nicaragua > Politics and government > 1937-1979. Nicaragua > Social conditions. Nicaragua > Politics and government > 1990- Ethics. Politics and government. Social conditions. Nicaragua. Since 1937 History.

Table of Contents:

State of Disorder : Vice, Corruption, and the Somoza Dictatorship
Burning Down the Brothels : Moral Regeneration and the Emergence of Sandinismo, 1956-1970
Persecuting the Living Christ : Guerrillas, Catholics, and Repression, 1968-1976
"They Planted Corn and Harvested Guardias" : Somoza's National Guard and Secret Police at the Grassroots
"A Crime to Be Young" : Families in Insurrection, September 1976-September 1978
"How Costly Is Freedom!" : Massacres, Community, and Sacrifice, October 1978-July 1979
Epilogue : Whither the Revolution? Nicaragua and the Sandinistas since 1979.