How Difficult It Is to Be God : Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999 /

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The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru's history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s and 1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path's initial successes were a mys...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Degregori, Carlos Iván (Autor)
Otros Autores: Appelbaum, Nancy P., Stern, Steve J., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Partido Comunista del Perú - Sendero Luminoso
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Violence.
Political violence.
Politics and government
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Violence politique > Perou.
Violence > Perou > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Political violence > Peru.
Violence > Peru > History > 20th century.
Peru.
Peru > Politics and government > 1980-
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Beyond orientalism in twentieth-century Peru : Carlos Iván Degregori and the Shining Path war / Steve J. Stern
  • The years we lived in danger : the armed conflict, 1980-1999
  • How social sciences failed? : On the trail of Shining Path, an elusive object of study
  • The maturation of a cosmocrat and the construction of a community of discourse
  • Revolution by handbook : the expansion of Marxism-Leninism in the social sciences and the origins of Shining Path
  • Youth, peasants, and political violence : Ayacucho, 1980-1983
  • Harvesting storms : peasant rondas and the defeat of Shining Path in Ayacucho
  • How difficult it is to be God : ideology and political violence in Shining Path
  • Epilogue : Open wounds and elusive rights : reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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