What went wrong? : the Nicaraguan Revolution : a Marxist analysis / / by Dan La Botz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910136537103321
• Autore: La Botz Dan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 90-04-29131-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Collana: Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 127
• Disciplina: 972.8505/3
• Soggetti: Counterrevolutions - Nicaragua; Nicaragua History Revolution, 1979; Nicaragua Politics and government 1990-; Nicaragua Politics and government 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- What Happened to the Nicaraguan Revolution? -- Nicaragua: A Nation but Not a State (from the Beginning to 1893) -- The Struggle to Construct a Sovereign State: Zelaya and Sandino (1893–1932) -- The Somoza Dynastic Dictatorship (1936–75) -- The Founding of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (1962–78) -- The Sandinista Revolution (1975–79) -- The Sandinistas in Power (1979–84) -- The Sandinistas and the Contra War (1985–90) -- Violeta Chamorro: A New Ruling Class, a New State, a New Economy (1990–96) -- Alemán and Bolaños: Corruption in Power (1996–2006) -- The Ortega Government (2006–) -- Results and Prospects -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN’s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all ; decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.