... by Duke University Press 1982 Since the July 1979 fall of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, numerous volumes have appeared in Spanish describing and analyzing the revolution and the victorious Erente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). The value of these works has varied greatly, some...

..., Managua’s Inter-Continental Hotel was jammed with journalists, activists, spies, and scholars. Soon, a flood of publications on Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution and the country’s modern history issued from scholarly presses and journals. But in 1990, the FSLN, Nicaragua’s ruling revolutionary party, lost...

...Harry E. Vanden In chapter 2, William Barnes explores the reasons so many of the pre-election surveys erred. (Quite a few Nicaraguan and U.S. pollsters had Violeta Chamorro’s UNO beating Daniel Ortega’s FSLN by a margin of 15 to 25 percent.) According to Barnes’ analysis, neither fear...

... and a member of the ruling Sandinista national directorate. Thus, the book provides interesting primary as well as secondary source material for the history of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). This latest edition contains no important new material, with the only noticeable changes from...

... of the Disappeared to the supporters of General Pinochet, even in the shanty towns of Chile. The political malleability and polysemic character of motherhood is amply evidenced in this study of post-1979 Nicaragua. Lorraine Bayard de Volo shows how the triumphant revolutionary party, the FSLN, seized upon images...

... introduction to the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and its revolution. Although completed before the Sandinistas’ electoral defeat in February 1990, this book should be read both by people seeking a basic understanding of Nicaragua and by those desiring a more detailed understanding of the FSLN...

... by Duke University Press 1996 Genuine democracy is possible under socialism, and the FSLN sought earnestly, though with limited success, to construct it in Nicaragua during the early 1980s. While some readers may find these propositions debatable, Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost argue for them...

...? In post-Sandinista León, it seems that collective memories of July 23 exist in uneasy juxtaposition with those of the FSLN and those posited by the Somoza regime some 40 years ago. Certainly, Somocista and Sandinista discourses on the massacre have had to vie for popular currency, competing with other...

... of texts that originated a generation later with members of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). Sandino’s “theosophy of liberation,” Hodges believes, reflected the general’s spiritual orientation, but it also was a contrivance designed for ideological combat with the Catholic church...

...Craig Auchter Given the apparent inability of the FSLN to resolve its internal contradictions and the polarizing effects of the current economic, social, and political models in Nicaragua, the authors look to the near future as an important time for the democratic development of responsive...

... the theory and practice of FSLN-sponsored rural labor unions and agricultural producer associations, cooperative peasant stores, and the women’s movement in the countryside. Wright views the Sandinista regime more broadly, but the picture he paints is basically the same as Luciak’s; one of complex...

... that ultimately led to their relinquishing power. Chapters on the mass organizations (Luis Hector Serra), the opposition parties (Eric Weaver and William Barnes), the FSLN as a ruling party (Gary Prevost), the role of women in the revolution (Patricia Chuchryk), and the role of both Catholic and Protestant...

... the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, but he used elements of Sandino’s thought to formulate the FSLN program. FSLN theorist Ricardo Morales Avilés, who considered a Marxist political approach essential to sandinismo , but a Marxist world view expendable, adapted Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural and class...

... are openly critical of the Sandinista government or supportive of Reagan administration policy. The book’s claim of having transcended an ideological perspective is, thus, disingenuous. There are two essays by Jiri and Virginia Valenta and Arturo Cruz, Sr. on the Leninist character of the FSLN...

... interviews with 12 women in this volume add to the literature analyzing the FSLN’s rule in Nicaragua and its defeat in the 1990 election. The women range from those who fought with the guerrillas or organized and ran different branches of the administration during the period of Sandinista rule to those who...

...). The importance of the peasants and the urban laboring masses in the revolutionary process is noted, but Vilas doubts that there could have been a successful revolution without the vanguard role played by the FSLN. Indeed, “The FSLN knew how to unite under their leadership all the forces exploited and oppressed...

... and sharply cut back the state sector. During these challenging years, a commitment to gender equity became a sort of litmus test of leftist political practice in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the Farbundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary...

... she concur with FSLN supporters that the movement is merely a continuation of the Sandinista support for political mobilization. Instead, she argues that current trends in social mobilization are related to both historical and current developments. In chapter 3, Babb outlines how neoliberalism...

... of Sandino’s thought and its quirks is probably better than Ramírez’s. Also included are a short bibliography, a Sergio Ramírez essay with an excellent capsule history of Nicaragua and a concise biography of Sandino, and an excerpt from Viva Sandino by Carlos Fonseca, founder of the FSLN. A last short piece...

..., and which, under the leadership of the Frente Sandinista de Liberation Nacional (FSLN), overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Employing a dependency framework, Walker’s fourth chapter traces the evolution of the economy from colonial times through 1979. The remainder of the chapter outlines the economic...