Sandinistas: A Moral History, Robert J. Sierakowski
Автор: Michael Johns Название: The Education of a Radical: An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua ISBN: 0292737882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292737884 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 48840.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical`s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with his ideals of justice.
Автор: Perla, Jr Название: Sandinista Nicaragua`s Resistance to US Coercion ISBN: 110711389X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107113893 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Perla argues that beyond traditional diplomatic, military, and domestic state policies a crucial element of the Sandinista National Liberation Front`s defensive strategy was the mobilization of a transnational social movement to build public opposition to Reagan`s policy within the United States, thus preventing further escalation of the conflict.
“I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else.” —From the preface
When Michael Johns joined a Sandinista militia in 1983, a fellow revolutionary dubbed him a rábano, a radish: red on the outside but white on the inside. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Johns appreciates the wisdom of that label as he revisits the questions of identity he tried to resolve by working with the Sandinistas at that point in his life. In The Education of a Radical, Johns recounts his immersion in Marxism and the Nicaraguan sojourn it led to, with a painful maturation process along the way.
His conversion began in college, where he joined a student group called the Latin American Solidarity Association and traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, for research on his senior thesis. Overwhelmed by the poverty he witnessed (and fascinated by a new friend named Maricela who was trying to turn peasants into revolutionaries and who carried a heavily highlighted copy of Late Capitalism), he experienced an ideological transformation. When a Marxist professor later encouraged him to travel to Nicaragua, the real internal battle began for him, a battle that was intensified by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and its effect on the Sandinistas, who believed they were the next target for an imminent American invasion. Before he knew it, Johns was digging trenches and learning how to use an AK-47. His intellectual ideals came face-to-face with revolutionary facts, and the results would perplex him for years to come.
Bringing to life a vivid portrait of the sometimes painful process of reconciling reality with romanticized principles, The Education of a Radical encapsulates a trove of truths about humanity, economics, and politics in one man’s memorable journey.
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