The Sandinistas

Author : Robert J. Sierakowski
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268106911

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Sandinistas by Robert J. Sierakowski Pdf

Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories, offer a new vantage point beyond geopolitics and ideologies to understand the central role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans. Focusing on the country’s rural north, Sierakowski explores how a diverse coalition of labor unionists, student activists, housewives, and peasants inspired by Catholic liberation theology came to successfully challenge the legitimacy of the Somoza dictatorship and its entrenched networks of power. Mobilizing communities against the ubiquitous cantinas, gambling halls, and brothels, grassroots organizers exposed the regime’s complicity in promoting social ills, disorder, and quotidian violence while helping to construct radical new visions of moral uplift and social renewal. Sierakowski similarly recasts our understanding of the Nicaraguan National Guard, grounding his study of the Somozas’ army in the social and cultural world of the ordinary soldiers who enlisted and fought in defense of the dictatorship. As the military responded to growing opposition with heightened state terror and human rights violations, repression culminated in widespread civilian massacres, stories that are unearthed for the first time in this work. These atrocities further exposed the regime’s moral breakdown in the eyes of the public, pushing thousands of previously unaligned Nicaraguans into the ranks of the guerrilla insurgency by the late 1970s. Sierakowski’s innovative reinterpretation of the Sandinista Revolution will be of interest to students, scholars, and activists concerned with Latin American social movements, the Cold War, and human rights.

Author : Matilde Zimmermann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822380993

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Sandinista by Matilde Zimmermann Pdf

“A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Fonseca, killed in battle in 1976, was the undisputed intellectual and strategic leader of the FSLN. In a groundbreaking and fast-paced narrative that draws on a rich archive of previously unpublished Fonseca writings, Matilde Zimmermann sheds new light on central themes in his ideology as well as on internal disputes, ideological shifts, and personalities of the FSLN. The first researcher ever to be allowed access to Fonseca’s unpublished writings (collected by the Institute for the Study of Sandinism in the early 1980s and now in the hands of the Nicaraguan Army), Zimmermann also obtained personal interviews with Fonseca’s friends, family members, fellow combatants, and political enemies. Unlike previous scholars, Zimmermann sees the Cuban revolution as the crucial turning point in Fonseca’s political evolution. Furthermore, while others have argued that he rejected Marxism in favor of a more pragmatic nationalism, Zimmermann shows how Fonseca’s political writings remained committed to both socialist revolution and national liberation from U.S. imperialism and followed the ideas of both Che Guevara and the earlier Nicaraguan leader Augusto César Sandino. She further argues that his philosophy embracing the experiences of the nation’s workers and peasants was central to the FSLN’s initial platform and charismatic appeal.

Author : Jonathan Buchsbaum
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292783423

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Cinema and the Sandinistas by Jonathan Buchsbaum Pdf

Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through the creation of a national film project. Over the next eleven years, the filmmakers of INCINE produced over seventy films—documentary, fiction, and hybrids—that collectively reveal a unique vision of the Revolution drawn not from official FSLN directives, but from the filmmakers' own cinematic interpretations of the Revolution as they were living it. This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema. Using a wealth of firsthand documentation—the films themselves, interviews with numerous INCINE personnel, and INCINE archival records—Jonathan Buchsbaum follows the evolution of INCINE's project and situates it within the larger historical project of militant, revolutionary filmmaking in Latin America. His research also raises crucial questions about the viability of national cinemas in the face of accelerating globalization and technological changes which reverberate far beyond Nicaragua's experiment in revolutionary filmmaking.

Author : Rosario Montoya
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816502417

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Gendered Scenarios of Revolution by Rosario Montoya Pdf

In 1979, toward the end of the Cold War era, Nicaragua's Sandinista movement emerged on the world stage claiming to represent a new form of socialism. Gendered Scenarios of Revolution is a historical ethnography of Sandinista state formation from the perspective of El Tule-a peasant village that was itself thrust onto a national and international stage as a "model" Sandinista community. This book follows the villagers ́ story as they joined the Sandinista movement, performed revolution before a world audience, and grappled with the lessons of this experience in the neoliberal aftermath. Employing an approach that combines political economy and cultural analysis, Montoya argues that the Sandinistas collapsed gender contradictions into class ones, and that as the Contra War exacerbated political and economic crises in the country, the Sandinistas increasingly ruled by mandate as vanguard party instead of creating the participatory democracy that they professed to work toward. In El Tule this meant that even though the Sandinistas created new roles and possibilities for women and men, over time they upheld pre-revolutionary patriarchal social structures. Yet in showing how the revolution created opportunities for Tuleños to assert their agency and advance their interests, even against the Sandinistas ́ own interests, this book offers a reinterpretation of the revolution ́s supposed failure. Examining this community’s experience in the Sandinista and post-Sandinista periods offers perspective on both processes of revolutionary transformation and their legacies in the neoliberal era. Gendered Scenarios of Revolution will engage graduate and undergraduate students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, and women’s and gender studies, and appeal to anyone interested in modern revolution and its aftermath.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PURD:32754050096308

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Human Rights in Nicaragua Under the Sandinistas by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : NYPL:33433097560969

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Human Rights in Nicaragua Under the Sandinistas by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Thomas W Walker,Harvey Williams,Peter Kornbluh,Eva Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309065

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Reagan Versus The Sandinistas by Thomas W Walker,Harvey Williams,Peter Kornbluh,Eva Gold Pdf

The product of research and investigation by a team of sixteen authors, Reagan versus the Sandinistas is the most comprehensive and current study to date of the Reagan administration's mounting campaign to reverse the Sandinista revolution. The authors thoroughly examine all major aspects of Reagan's "low-intensity war," from the U.S. government's attempts at economic destabilization to direct CIA sabotage and the sponsorship of the contras or freedom fighters. They also explore less-public tactics such as electronic penetration, behind-the-scenes manipulation of religious and ethnic tensions, and harassment of U.S. Nicaraguan specialists and "fellow travelers." The book concludes with a consideration of the impact of these activities and their implications for international law, U.S. interests, U.S. polity, and Nicaragua itself. Reagan versus the Sandinistas is designed not only for courses on Latin America, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations, but also for students, scholars, and others interested in understanding one of the most massive, complex efforts—short of direct intervention—organized by the United States to overthrow the government of another country.

Author : Morris H. Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521523354

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Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas by Morris H. Morley Pdf

Based on personal interviews and declassified US government documents, this book, first published in 1994, studies US policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies.

Author : Sergio Ramírez
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822350874

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Adiós Muchachos by Sergio Ramírez Pdf

Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522145

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Sandino's Daughters by Margaret Randall Pdf

Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others. In Sandino's Daughters Revisited, they speak of their lives during and since the Sandinista administration, the ways in which the revolution made them strong--and also held them back. Ironically, the 1990 defeat of the Sandinistas at the ballot box has given Sandinista women greater freedom to express their feelings and ideas.

Author : Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017821039

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Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention by Peter Kornbluh Pdf

Author : Hilary Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1908857773

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A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? by Hilary Francis Pdf

Author : Ron Ridenour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001146293

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Yankee Sandinistas by Ron Ridenour Pdf

Author : Dan La Botz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004291317

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What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution by Dan La Botz Pdf

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’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.

Author : Roger Miranda,William E. Ratliff
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412819687

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The Civil War in Nicaragua by Roger Miranda,William E. Ratliff Pdf

"The conflict in Nicaragua is one of the leastunderstood struggles of the Cold War. . . . This account clarifies the central issue and dispelsmany lingering myths." --Zbigniew Breinski,National Security Advisor during the Carter administration