| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 407 pages) |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 127 |
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Historical materialism book series ; v. 127
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| Contents |
Nicaragua: a nation but not a state (from the beginning to 1893) -- The struggle to construct a sovereign state: Zelaya and Sandino (1893-1932) -- The Somoza dynastic dictatorship (1936-75) -- The founding of the Sandinista front for national liberation (1962-78) -- The Sandinista revolution (1975-79) -- The Sandinistas in power (1979-84) -- The Sandinistas and the Contra war (1985-90) -- Violeta Chamorro: A new ruling class, a new state, a new economy (1990-96) -- Alemán and Bolaños: corruption in power (1996-2006) -- The Ortega government (2006- ) -- Epilogue: results and prospects |
| Summary |
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 ('the Sandinistas'), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN's lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN's lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2021) |
| Subject |
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional fast |
| Subject |
Counterrevolutions -- Nicaragua
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Counterrevolutions
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Politics and government
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Nicaraguanische Revolution
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| SUBJECT |
Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002172
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Nicaragua -- History -- Revolution, 1979.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091733
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Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93005268
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| Subject |
Nicaragua
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016029404 |
| ISBN |
9789004291317 |
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9004291318 |
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