...G. Earl Sanders The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia: From the MNR to Military Rule . By Mitchell Christopher . New York , 1977 . Praeger Publishers . Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 167 . Cloth . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The great...

...Leonard Cardenas, Jr. Military Intervention in Bolivia: The Overthrow of Paz Estenssoro and the MNR . By Brill William H. . Washington , 1967 . Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems . Political Studies Series, 3 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. i , 68 . Paper...

... Revolucionario (MNR) state's rightward turn, local elites had regrouped to challenge revolutionary change. Meanwhile, José Rojas—a powerful peasant leader and key MNR ally—faced a crucial crossroads. Repeatedly tapped by state authorities to pacify San Pedro de Buena Vista, Rojas vacillated between asserting...

...Kevin A. Young Abstract After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor...

.... Author’s translation. See also Klein, Parties and Political Change . . ., p. 372, and Charles H. Weston, Jr., “An Ideology of Modernization: The Case of the Bolivian MNR,” Journal of Inter-American Studies , 10:1 (January 1968) p. 101. 68 Friedrich Katz called the author’s attention to two...

...James V. Kohl 1 See Christopher Mitchell, The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia: From the MNR to Military Rule (New York, 1977), pp. 78-81; Laurence Whitehead, “The State and Sectional Interests: The Bolivian Case, ” European Journal of Political Research , 3 (June 1975), 115-146...

...Erick D. Lancer This book contains important material for understanding the position of MNR leaders during a crucial period in the history of twentieth-century Bolivia. Though flawed, its provocative premise should generate further fruitful controversy over the exact role of the Bolivian press...

..., April 9-11, 1952, revolutionary forces captured the urban strongholds of power—La Paz, Potosí, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Oruro, and Tarija. Miners, factory and railroad workers, MNR (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario) cadre, townspeople and carabineros, together with disaffected members...

... grievances, the outcome was neither inevitable nor easily imposed by the MNR. Available evidence indicates that Indian communities used the provision allowing the reinstatement of usurped communal land more frequently than previously thought.” Gotkowitz, Revolution , 280–81. 24. Zulema Lehm...

... by Duke University Press 2019 Kevin Young's Blood of the Earth is a study of nationalist and statist Bolivia between 1920 and 1980, with a special emphasis on the national revolution of 1952 and the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) government of 1952–64. The book focuses on La Paz...

... revolution, which was led by the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). Carmen Soliz's extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of land tenure in three provinces at the core of Bolivia's hacienda system explains not only the mechanics and shape of land reform but also its profound effects...

... decades, the Movimiento Nacionalist Revolucionaria (MNR), produce some exaggeration and a couple of surprising omissions. The author vigorously defends the MNR’s commitment to reform on the eve of the 1952 National Revolution. Alexander notes that some scholars have argued that “the MNR had not originally...

... integrated into the U.S.-dominated hemispheric system that collapsed during the Great Depression and set off a wave of nationalism and radicalism across the republics in the 1930s. By far the most fascinating period of U.S.-Bolivian relations, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionaria (MNR) years...

... University Press 1970 The central insight of this slender, fact-studded, and generally excellent volume is that the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionaria (MNR) was not revolutionary at all in financial policy during its tenure of power from 1952 to 1964. Rather, the MNR continued the policies actually...

...Charles W. Arnade This is a collection of speeches of the author who is a member of the left wing of the Bolivian MNR. Most of these speeches were made in the Bolivian legislature in the late 1950’s. It is an interesting if not valuable book because it defines clearly the thinking...

.... The book has an introduction entitled “A Frame of Analysis,” followed by three parts: a quick survey up to the end of the Chaco War; from 1936 until the 1952-MNR revolution; and the period of the MNR until the fall of Paz Estenssoro in 1964. Then there is a well presented chapter called “conclusions...

... Revolucionario (MNR) seized power in April 1952. He starts out with the proposition that “the ideology of the Fourth International was widely accepted by those who had made the April revolution.” However, this was certainly not the case with Juan Lechín and Mario Torres of the Miners’ Federation, Germán Buitrón...

... raises important questions about the similarities of the MAS with the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) of 1952. He argues that by recognizing that they are building on the past of the MNR, the MAS could avoid repeating some of the same mistakes. Whitehead hopes for a “constrained originality...

... that this was the case. It seems to me necessary (and eminently feasible) to go beyond just what the MNR newspapers claimed and attempt to measure the significance of these newspapers as political actors by the importance that other newspapers and political figures of the era gave to these periodicals. For example...

... to the abrupt seizure of power by the MNR in Bolivia in April 1952. Initially distrustful, the American government soon performed an unusual about-face—actually unique for the time—and began a generous aid and assistance program in support of the revolutionary regime. Víctor Andrade served in various top...