Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America’s twentieth century. Attentive to the interplay among overlapping local, regional, national, and international fields of power, the contributors focus on the dialectical relations between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and their unfolding in the context of U.S. hemispheric and global hegemony. Through their fine-grained analyses of events in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, they suggest a framework for interpreting the experiential nature of political violence while also analyzing its historical causes and consequence
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Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America’s Long Cold War
Part One: The First Cold War
Violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions
Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico
On the Road to “El Porvenir”: Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua
Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile’s Southern Frontier
Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture
The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution
Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution
Part Three: The Weight of the Night
The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution
A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village
“People’s War,” “Dirty War”: Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru
The Cold War That Didn’t End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín, Colombia
You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World
Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America
Latin America’s Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power
History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer
A Century of Revolution
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