What went wrong? : : the Nicaraguan Revolution : a Marxist analysis / / by Dan La Botz.

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 r...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 127
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 127.
Physical Description:1 online resource (429 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • What Happened to the Nicaraguan Revolution?
  • 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–)
  • Results and Prospects
  • Bibliography
  • Index.