Students of Revolution : : Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua / / Claudia Rueda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rueda, Claudia,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Acronyms --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 The Origins of Student Anti-Somoza Consciousness, 1937–1944 --; CHAPTER 2 Protest and Repression during the “Democratic Effervescence,” 1944–1948 --; CHAPTER 3 Defending Student Dignity, 1950–1956 --; CHAPTER 4 “La Pequeña Gran República,” 1956–1959 --; CHAPTER 5 Reform vs. Revolution, 1960–1968 --; CHAPTER 6 Radicalizing Youth, 1966–1972 --; CHAPTER 7 Un Trabajo de Hormiga, 1970–1979 --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477319314; 9783110745290
• DOI: 10.7560/319307
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Claudia Rueda.

Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979—one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection—one in which societal groups, from elite housewives to rural laborers, came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime’s repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.