| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"We lived those years with a lot of passion" : university reform and the rise of the movimiento de Izquierda revolucionaria -- "To create a more just society" : coal miners and textile workers in the revolutionary workers front -- "By our own means" : socialist utopia in building revolutionary shantytowns -- "Let the people speak!": popular democracy and the Concepción people's assemblies -- "Building their own power" : grassroots responses to the bosses' lockout -- "Living within a special world" : the unraveling revolution and the limits of the vanguard -- Epilogue : the meaning and memory of radical politics in the 21st century. |
| Summary |
"For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende's attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the vanguard, Marian E. Schlotterbeck explores popular politics in Chile in the decade before Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and provides an in-depth account of how working-class people transformed the existing social order by embracing radical politics. Schlotterbeck eloquently describes how even though Chileans failed to capitalize on an opportunity for democratic revolution, the legacy of their effort still resonates in Chile and beyond"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- Political activity -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Working class -- Political activity. |
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Chile. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chile -- Politics and government -- 1970-1973.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1970-1973 |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schlotterbeck, Marian. Beyond the vanguard. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298057 (DLC) 2017053913 |
| ISBN |
9780520970175 (electronic book) |
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0520970179 (electronic book) |
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9780520298057 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520298064 |
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0520298055 |
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9780520298057 |
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0520298063 |
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9780520298064 |
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