| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 407 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series,
1570-1522 ;
volume 127
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Historical materialism book series ; v. 127.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional -- History.
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Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. |
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History. |
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Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Nicaragua. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nicaragua -- History -- Revolution, 1979.
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Counterrevolutions -- Nicaragua.
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Counterrevolutions. |
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Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1990-
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| Chronological Term |
1990- |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. |
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Nicaraguanische Revolution. |
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Revolution (Nicaragua : 1979) |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Nicaraguan Revolution, a Marxist analysis |
| Other Form: |
Print version: La Botz, Dan. What Went Wrong? Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004291300 (DLC) 2016028966 (OCoLC)951955854 |
| ISBN |
9789004291317 electronic book |
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9004291318 electronic book |
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9789004291300 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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900429130X hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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