Author

Publication

2016 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

101,750 words, Guess

Page Count

407 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004291300
  • ISBN-10900429130X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016028966
  • OCLC Control Number951955854
  • Better World Books9789004291300
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Classifications

  • LCCF1528.L28 2016
  • LCCF1528 .L28 2016

Description

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.

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