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  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Self-Defense, Class Oppression, and Extortion: Alternative Views of State Violence; 2. Antecedents: The Matanza and the Establishment of Military Rule; 3. The Failure of Institutional Military Rule; 4. Experiments in State Terrorism: Repression and Polarization under Carlos Romero; 5. The Reformist Coup and the First Revolutionary Governing Junta; 6. Descent into Mass Murder; 7. Breaking the Protection Racket: From War to Peace; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Notes; References; Index.