The shining path : love, madness, and revolution in the Andes
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Author
Contributors
La Serna, Miguel, author.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru long after the fall of global communism. The tale of the Shining Path may be the most gripping saga in modern Latin American history, but its full story has never been told. Described by a U.S. State Department cable as 'cold-blooded and bestial, ' this band of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionaries mounted a guerrilla war in the 1980s that led to more than 60,000 deaths or disappearances. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzmán, who launched his quixotic insurrection based on outmoded, dogmatic ideology alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparaguirre, who abandoned her family to join the war. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna's narrative also introduces the mountain villagers who organized a fierce resistance, the mercurial black activist María Elena Moyano, and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. Dramatic and engaging, The Shining Path takes the reader into the heart of this brutal rebellion, and the lives and country it nearly destroyed"--,Provided by publisher.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Communists -- Peru -- Biography.
Guerrilla warfare -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Guerrillas -- Peru -- Biography.
Peru -- Politics and government -- 1968-1980.
Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Revolutionaries -- Peru -- Biography.
Revolutions -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Terrorism -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Communists -- Peru -- Biography.
Guerrilla warfare -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Guerrillas -- Peru -- Biography.
Peru -- Politics and government -- 1968-1980.
Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Revolutionaries -- Peru -- Biography.
Revolutions -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Terrorism -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.