Lexington Books, 2018. — 246 p. Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day. Over its 30 year...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 295 p. Food policy and practices varied widely in Nicaragua during the last decades of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and ‘80s, food scarcity contributed to the demise of the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista revolution. Although faced with widespread scarcity and political restrictions, Nicaraguan consumers still carved out...
Westview Press, 1985. — 388 p. In this second, revised and updated edition, Dr. Booth assesses the performance of the revolutionary government since 1979. The structure and operation of the regime is closely examined, as well as its policies and their implementation. The author details the difficulties the Sandinistas have encountered with the breakdown of their revolutionary...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — 350 p. The Contra War and the Iran-Contra affair that shook the Reagan presidency were center stage on the U.S. political scene for nearly a decade. According to most observers, the main Contra army, or the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (FDN), was a mercenary force hired by the CIA to oppose the Sandinista socialist revolution. The Real...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 92 p. For much of the 20th century, Latin American governments in large part lived under a system of military junta governments. The mixture of indigenous peoples, foreign settlers and European colonial superpowers produced cultural and social imbalances into which military forces intervened as a stabilizing influence. The proactive...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. — 375 p. The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical...
Red Balloon Collective Books, 2017. — 150 p. Mitchel Cohen’s memoir gets across the feel of those hopeful days of the Nicaraguan revolution in the 1980s – as well as the sights, sounds, and smells. He captures the combination of excitement and trepidation U.S. leftists felt as they prepared to leave, along with the roadblocks: from relatives who thought Nicaragua was inhabited...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 212 p. — (St Antony's Series). Arturo J. Cruz, Jr argues that political learning, trust-building, and institutional innovation by political elites broke Nicaragua's post-colonial cycle of anarchy and petty despotism, leaving in its place an increasingly inclusive oligarchic democracy that made possible state-led economic development for the next 30...
Penn State University Press, 2011. — 255 p. Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some...
Routledge, 2019. — 368 p. Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution delineates the human dimension of the Nicaraguan conflict, revealing what it is like to live in Nicaragua today. Through conversations with Denis Heyck, twenty Nicaraguans--powerful and powerless, rich and poor, government and opposition, educated and illiterate--tell their fascinating stories. What emerges is...
University of Texas Press, 1988. — 390 p. In this critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers, Donald C. Hodges has discovered a coherent ideological thread and political program, which he succeeds in tracing to Mexican and Spanish sources. Sandino's strong religious inclination in combination with his anarcho-syndicalist political ideology...
Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998. — 372 p. Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and equality and those...
Brill, 2016. — 429 p. — (Historical Materialism. Research in Critical Marxist Theory 127). This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (the Sandinistas), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either...
Orbis Books, 1977. — 292 p. In this well-documented and scholarly study Richard Millett details the history of the military and political life of twentieth-century Nicaragua. He focuses particularly on the 1920s and 1930s, the formative period of the United States-sponsored Guardia Nacional and of the guardia-backed Somoza dictatorship. The guardia grew out of the U.S. military...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 356 p. — ISBN: 0521523354, 9780521523356. This study of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies reveals the fundamental importance Washington placed on preserving state institutions in Latin America while adopting a much more flexible approach regarding support for elected regimes or dictatorial rulers....
Routledge, 2018. — 155 p. This title was first published in 2002: This volume demonstrates that international action for democracy does not solely rest on American democracy promotion strategies, but that it actually depends on a variety of global actors and interactions. It is suitable for policy experts, non-governmental organizations, international aid agencies and courses...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. — 171 p. — (Studies in Russia and East Europe). — ISBN: 9780230289000, 978-1-349-41488-8, 978-0-230-28900-0. Soviet Interests and Communist Tactics in Central America prior to the Sandinista Victory of 1979. The Soviet Reaction to the Opportunities Created by the Nicaraguan Revolution. The Extent of Soviet Military and Economic Assistance to the...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. — 332 p. Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration’s attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as...
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 2019. — 363 p. History of the Nicaraguan Revolution, with emphasis on analysing the moral doctrine and practice of the Sandinista movement
University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 406 p. As President Carter’s ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977–1979, Mauricio Solaún witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaún outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan...
UNC Press Books, 2017. — 334 р. By tracing the complex relationship between the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan business elite, this book examines the shifting mix of alliances and oppositions that shaped the Sandinista revolution. Rose Spalding takes issue with models of the business sector that assume a high degree of class cohesion. Drawing on carefully structured...
Routledge, 2022. — 270 p. This book, first published in 1987, is a solid, analytical exploration of the complex dynamics of the revolutionary economic transformation from 1979 to 1986. This collection of eleven essays provides a clear picture of the goals, internal debates, external influences and shifting policy decisions which affected the efforts of the Sandinista...
Routledge, 2022. — 270 p. This book, first published in 1987, is a solid, analytical exploration of the complex dynamics of the revolutionary economic transformation from 1979 to 1986. This collection of eleven essays provides a clear picture of the goals, internal debates, external influences and shifting policy decisions which affected the efforts of the Sandinista...
ABC-CLIO, 2010. — 175 p. This concise history of Nicaragua provides the reader with a history of the ways in which key political and economic factors have contributed to the creation of the modern nation. Notwithstanding Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's disdain for the United States, our nation has played a significant role in shaping Nicaraguan nationalism, as well as the...
Routledge, 1987. — 441 p. This book offers concepts of the Nicaraguan military conflict and examines the interpretations of its origins. It discusses the evolution of Sandinista National Liberation Front ideological posture and structures and deals with Soviet, Cuban, and Western European perceptions and policies toward Nicaragua.
Monthly Review Press, 1986. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0853456798, 9780853456797. Looks at Nicaragua's economic system before the revolution, describes the social and economic changes implemented by the Sandinista government, and examines education and social programs under the new regime.
Routledge, 2019. — 421 p. A comprehensive overview of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, this book offers an interdisciplinary study of the domestic and foreign challenges that faced the Sandinista government during its ten years in power. Based on extensive research in Nicaragua during the revolution, the essays examine important aspects of both the revolution and the...
Second Edition. — Westview Press, 1986. — 200 p. This timely book, with its useful and comprehensive index, is an insightful study of Nicaragua that should be read by any student of foreign affairs. This book is an examination of the evolving social and political atmosphere during the first half decade after the Sandinistas revolution. Written by eminent scholars and...
М.: Издательство Агентства печати «Новости» , 1987. — 392 с., ил. — (Б-чка АПН). Михаил Белят (род. в 1950 году) — журналист-международник, более трёх лет работал в Никарагуа в качестве корреспондента Агентства печати «Новости» (АПН) и «Комсомольской правды». Его репортажи, статьи, очерки часто публиковались в советской центральной прессе («Известия», «Советская Россия», «За...
М.: Институт Латинской Америки РАН, 2009. — 192 с.
С иллюстрациями. Предметом данного исследования стало необычное музыкальное и одновременно социальное явление второй половины XX века - движение «Новой песни» Никарагуа. В монографии также рассматриваются особенности подобных движений в других центральноамериканских странах. В основу книги легли уникальные материалы, собранные...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1984. — 192 с. Книга посвящена истории Никарагуа. Остановившись на периоде испанского владычества, освобождении страны от испанского гнета, попытках североамериканских авантюристов и правительства США в XIX в. поработить Никарагуа, автор основное внимание уделяет борьбе никарагуанцев против агрессии американского империализма в XX в. В центре внимания...
М.: Прогресс, 1985. — 363 с. О знаменитом революционере Никарагуа. Сборник материалов и документов. В основе данного издания - книга, изданная в 1981 г. в Никарагуа (автор - Sergio Ramirez).
М.: Прогресс, 1985. — 363 с. О знаменитом революционере Никарагуа. Сборник материалов и документов. В основе данного издания - книга Серхио Рамиреса, изданная в 1981 г. в Никарагуа.
М.: Русский фонд содействия образованию и науке, Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2015. — 781 с. — (Холодная война). — ISBN: 978-5-91244-103-5. Книга посвящена первой успешной вооруженной революции в Латинской Америке после кубинской — Сандинистской революции в Никарагуа, победившей в июле 1979 года. В книге дан краткий очерк истории Никарагуа, подробно описана борьба генерала...
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