The Shining Path of Peru / by NA NA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, David Scott, 1937- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Political science.

European Politics.

Politics and International Studies.

Local Subjects:

European Politics.

Politics and International Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 299 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 1994.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.

Summary:

This is the first book in English to provide a truly comprehensive view of Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso ), a major guerilla movement in Peru. Sendero 's Maoist principles first begin in the 1960s with a small band of supporters and no attention from the outside world, but later emerged as the most radical and dogmatic expression of Marxist revolution in the Hemisphere .

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Peru map

Ayacucho Emergency Zone map

Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Contributors

About the Cover

1 Introduction: History, Politics, and Shining Path in Peru

2 Taking the High Ground: Shining Path and the Andes

3 The Origins and Logic of Shining Path: Two Views

Return to the Past

The Center's Multiple Failures

4 Shining Path and Peasant Responses in Rural Ayacucho

5 Peasant Responses to Shining Path in Andahuaylas

6 Guerrillas and Coca in the Upper Huallaga Valley

7 Shining Path's Urban Strategy: Ate Vitarte

8 Shining Path's Stalin and Trotsky

9 The Organization of Shining Path

10 Making Revolution with Shining Path

11 Shining Path and the Marxist Left

12 Theories of Revolution and the Case of Peru

13 Conclusion: The View from the Windows

Bibliography

Glossary of Acronyms with Spanish and English Expansions

Index

Photo of The Faculty of the University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, Peru, December 1962.

ISBN:

9781137052100

1137052104

OCLC:

1083463643