Latin America''s Radical Left - Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s

This book examines a generation of leftist militants who in the 1960s advocated revolutionary violence for social change in South America.

List of contents

Introduction: actions, ideas, and emotions in the construction of a transnational radicalism in the Southern Cone; 1. Revolution without the Sierra Maestra: the Tupamaros and the development of a repertoire of dissent for urbanized countries. Montevideo, 1962-8; 2. The subjective bonds of revolutionary solidarity. From Havana to Ñancahuazú (Bolivia), 1967; 3. Dependence or armed struggle. Southern Cone intellectuals and militants questioning the legal path to socialism. Santiago de Chile 1970-3; 4. 'The decisive round in Latin America's revolution' - Bolivian, Chilean, and Uruguayan activists in Peronist Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1973-6; 5. Surviving democracy. The transition from armed struggle to human rights (1981-9); Conclusion: revolutionaries without revolution.

About the author

Aldo Marchesi teaches history at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. He is the Director of the Uruguayan Interdisciplinary Studies Center (CEIU), a specialized center on recent Uruguayan history.

Summary

This book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist militants in South America, who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocated organized political violence and transnational strategies as the only ways of achieving social change in their countries during the Cold War.

Product details

• Authors: Aldo Marchesi, Aldo (Universidad De La Republica Marchesi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107177710
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17771-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of the Americas, The Cold War