The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 and the consolidation of Soviet power had a transformative impact on the twentieth century. Not only did the emergence of the world's first socialist state profoundly alter the destinies of the vast territories that became the Soviet Union, but it also reshaped the global political map, establishing a systemic alternative to capitalism that drew attentions and loyalties—as well as vehement rejections—across the world. This volume edited by Carlos Miguel Herrera and Eugenia Palieraki traces some of the repercussions of the Russian Revolution in Latin America, a region that already possessed its own revolutionary traditions and that by 1917–18 was witnessing its own ferment of radicalism and insurgency from below, typified by the Mexican Revolution and the Argentine university reform movement. Within this charged context, even though events in Petrograd and Moscow were physically distant, they had a direct impact on Latin America's political landscape....
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