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Transformation of a “Revolution from Below”–Bolivia and International Capital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Susan Eckstein
Susan Eckstein
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Boston University
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A nationalist coalition with middle-class leadership seized control of the Bolivian state in 1952. Uprisings immediately broke out in the countryside, and peasants seized lands previously held in large estates. In response to pressure from below, the new government in 1953 initiated an agrarian reform that destroyed the economic base of the landed oligarchy. It also reorganized old agrarian institutions and created new ones to serve the rural poor. Yet government policies a short while after the revolution ceased to favor the peasantry.

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Politics of Capitalist Agriculture
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 105 - 135
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1983

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