... have motivated Communist leaders to plan their 1935 revolt to start in that section” (p. 186). Turning to the 1950s and 1960s, however, we cannot forget the PCB’s opinion that Pernambuco was the least suitable state for revolt, nor a tabulation assembled by the PCB and reproduced in the Cruzada...

...Brodwyn Fischer Abstract This article focuses on the relationship between the political Left and Brazil’s urban poor by exploring the paradoxical role of Brazilian communists in the massive land struggles that mobilized Rio’s favelas against forced eviction in the mid-twentieth century. Without...

...Steve Ellner Stumbling Its Way through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International . By Spenser Daniela . Translated by Gellert Peter . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2011 . Photographs. Notes. Index. ix, 205 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2014 by Duke...

...Lars Schoultz The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America . By Rabe Stephen C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1999 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 257 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Paper , $17.95...

..., the $97.99 price point may be prohibitive to all but the most dedicated specialists. This would be unfortunate because Anti-Communist Solidarity is a must-read not only for historians of Brazilian and Latin American labor history but also for those interested in US labor history, US–Latin American...

..., one of the leaders of the 1936 general strike and then general secretary of the Communist party from 1940 to 1960. Dionisio Encina’s family had been miners for many generations in Zacatecas, and his father had worked in small mines in three states (Zacatecas, Durango, and San Luis Potosí...

... Penetration of the Political Institutions of Guatemala by the International Communist Movement . Information Submitted by the Delegation of the United States of America to the Fifth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, Serving as Organ...

... Communist Aggression in Latin America, 9th Interim Report of Hearings Before Subcommittee, 83rd Congress, 2d Session, September 27-October 15, 1954 . Washington, D. C. , 1954 . Superintendent of Documents . Pp. iii , 295 . Paper . $1.00 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press...

...K.S. Yearbook on Latin American Communist Affairs, 1971 . Edited by Ratliff William E. . Foreword by Alexander Robert J. . Stanford, California , 1971 . Hoover Institution Press . Hoover Institution Publications, 112 . Table. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 194 . Paper...

... and abiding interest in Latin America” (p. 1). This work constitutes a full-length study of what is basically a footnote in contemporary Latin American politics. One third of the book is devoted to Chinese Communist ideology and foreign policy perceptions, about one fourth to Chinese-Cuban relations...

... . Austin and London , 1971 . Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by The University of Texas Press . Latin American Monograph, 24 . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 192 . Paper. $7.00 . Matanza: El Salvador’s Communist Revolt of 1932 . By Anderson Thomas P. . Lincoln...

...K.M.S. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, 1973 . Edited by Staab Richard F. . Stanford, California , 1973 . Hoover Institution Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 651 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Initialed notices were...

...Elizabeth H. Hyman Trotskyism in Latin America . By Alexander Robert J. . Stanford, California , 1973 . Hoover Institution Press . Hoover Institution Publication, 119 . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 301 . Cloth. $10.00 . The Communist Tide in Latin America: A Selected...

...Winfield J. Burggraaff The Communist Party of Venezuela . By Alexander Robert J. . Stanford , 1970 . Hoover Institution Press. Hoover Institution Studies . Comparative Communist Party Politics . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xxi , 246 . Cloth, $6.00 . Paper, $2.80 . Copyright...

...Karl M. Schmitt Despite its overall value as a work of reference, the volume calls for a few questions and criticisms. The brief country studies lack the analysis necessary to place the national Communist movements in proper perspective with respect to the political systems in which they operate...

... of the least studied and understood aspects of Communist foreign policy. As Richard L. Walker has written: 2 The term “cultural diplomacy” probably represents a more accurate description of the Communist program than “propaganda” or “cultural relations,” because it calls attention to the fact that Sino...

... International.” 76 Jane Degras, ed., The Communist International 1919-1943 , 2 vols. (London, 1956), I, 38-47. The American communist Louis Fraina did make a number of references to United States-Mexican relations during his intervention at the Comintern congress. National Archives, Washington, D.C...

... proclamado en Cuba que “la clase trabajadora no debe luchar por migajas, sino por la conquista del poder político” que, desde luego, es para el grupo comunista organizado. Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Labor Conditions in Communist Cuba . By Cuban Economic Research Project...

...Duvon C. Corbitt The Fourth Floor. An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution . By Smith Earl E. T. . New York , 1962 . Random House . Index Pp. x , 242 . $5.00 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 This is not an ordinary mystery story as the main title...

... writes that some are excluded because “they do not yet describe themselves, or are not alluded to in Soviet publications, as orthodox communist-rules parties” (p. ix). On the other hand, FRELIMO and the MPLA of Angola appear to be omitted on the basis of the editor’s judgment. Trotskyist and “other rival...