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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 consequences. In so doing, they set a new agenda for the study of revolutionary change and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America.ContributorsMichelle ChaseJeffrey L. GouldGreg GrandinLillian GuerraForrest HyltonGilbert M. JosephFriedrich KatzThomas Miller KlubockNeil LarsenArno J. MayerCarlota McAllisterJocelyn OlcottGerardo ReniqueCorey RobinPeter Winn

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Histoire

América del Sur

20th century

Terrorism

South America

Latin America

History of the Americas

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	21 octobre 2010
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EAN13	9780822392859
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A Century of Revolution

a m er ic a n encou n t er s/gl oba l in t er ac t ions A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and decon-struction of cultural and political borders, the uid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, Ameri-can Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

A Century of Revolution Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold War

greg grandin& gilbert m. joseph,editors

du k e uni v er si t y pr ess du r h aondonm & l 2010

Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper ∞

Typeset in Galliard by Achorn International, Inc.

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appear on the last printed page of this book.

this book was published with the assistance of the frederick w. hilles publication fund of yale university.

In a revolution, the revolution comes îrst. —c. l. r. james

Contents

Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America’s Long Cold Wargreg grandin 1

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Violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions friedrich katz 45

Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexicojocelyn olcott 62

On the Road to “El Porvenir”: Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua jeffrey l. gould 88

Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile’s Southern Frontierthomas miller klubock 121

part two:The Cuban Conjuncture

The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolutionmichelle chase 163

Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959–2009 lillian guerra 199

part three:The Weight of the Night

The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolutionpeter winn

239

A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Villagecarlota mcallister

“People’s War,” “Dirty War”: Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Perugerardo rénique

309

The Cold War That Didn’t End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín, Colombiaforrest hylton 338

Reections

You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the Worldcorey robin 371

Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin Americaneil larsen 381

Conclusions

Latin America’s Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Powergilbert m. joseph

History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayergreg grandin

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Index

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Acknowledgments

This volume took root during a three-day international conference, “Re-thinking Latin America’s Century of Revolutionary Violence,” which we organized at Yale University in May 2003. The conference, which was sponsored by Yale’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. The event represented the second of two conferences that Yale staged in 2002–2003 in an attempt to expand conceptual frame-works for studying the Latin American cold war; the initial conference, held in Mexico City, resulted inIn from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold Warwhich was also published by Duke University (2008), Press in the American Encounters/Global Interactions Series. We thank Arno J. Mayer for graciously participating in the May 2003 conference and for continuing conversations. We are grateful to Beatriz Riefkohl, then assistant chair of Yale’s Latin American and Iberian Council, and to members of her staff for their as-sistance in staging our lively 2003 event, at which earlier versions of many of this collection’s essays were îrst presented. We are greatly indebted to several other colleagues who shared ideas and insights that substantiallyenriched this volume—particularly Christopher Browning, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Mark Danner, Laurent Dubois, Sinclair Thomson, Piero Gleijeses,Alan Knight, Deborah Levenson, Barbara Weinstein, Stuart Schwartz, AdaFerrer, Rebecca Scott, Peter Hallward, Kristin Ross, Harry Harootunian, Manu Goswami, Elisabeth Wood, Molly Nolan, Marilyn Young, Patri-cia Pessar, and Michael Zeuske. We thank Matthew Vitz for helping with

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