LEADER 03140nam 2200505 450 001 9910136537103321 005 20230808195211.0 010 $a90-04-29131-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004291317 035 $a(CKB)3710000000846660 035 $a(EBL)4715139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4715139 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004291317 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000846660 100 $a20161019h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat went wrong? $ethe Nicaraguan Revolution : a Marxist analysis /$fby Dan La Botz 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands :$cBrill,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (429 p.) 225 1 $aHistorical Materialism Book Series,$x1570-1522 ;$vVolume 127 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-29130-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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. 330 $aThis volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (?the Sandinistas?), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN?s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN?s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class. 410 0$aHistorical materialism book series ;$vVolume 127. 606 $aCounterrevolutions$zNicaragua 607 $aNicaragua$xHistory$yRevolution, 1979 607 $aNicaragua$xPolitics and government$y1990- 607 $aNicaragua$xPolitics and government$y20th century 615 0$aCounterrevolutions 676 $a972.8505/3 700 $aLa Botz$b Dan$01247780 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136537103321 996 $aWhat went wrong$92892380 997 $aUNINA