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The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Postmortem

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REVOLUCION Y POLITICA ALIMENTARIA: UN ANALISIS CRITICO DE NICARAGUA. By BIONDI-MORRABRIZIO N. (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1990. Pp. 342.)

SANDINISTA COMMUNISM AND RURAL NICARAGUA. By BUGAZSKIJANUSZ. (New York: Praeger, 1990. Pp. 132. $34.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.)

POST-REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUA: STATE, CLASS, AND THE DILEMMAS OF AGRARIAN POLICY. By COLBURNFORREST D. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. 145. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Richard L. Harris*
Affiliation:
Golden Gate University
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Notes

1. Bugazski quotes on page 23 from Roger Burbach and Orlando Núñez, Fire in the Americas: Forging a Revolutionary Agenda (London: Verso, 1987).

2. Carlos Vilas, The Sandinista Revolution: National Liberation and Social Transformation in Central America (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1986), 268.

3. Bugazski quotes from George Black, Triumph of the People: The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua (London: Zed, 1985), 33.

4. Richard Harris, Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1992), 59–60.

5. See Vilas, The Sandinista Revolution, 155.

6. Ibid., 154.

7. Ibid., 268.

8. Carlos Vilas, “What Went Wrong,” NACLA Report on the Americas 24, no. 1 (June 1990):13.

9. Joseph Collins, What Difference Could a Revolution Make? Food and Farming in the New Nicaragua (New York: Grove, 1986), 39–50; and Richard Harris, “The Economic Transformation and Industrial Development of Nicaragua,” in Nicaragua: A Revolution under Siege, edited by Richard Harris and Carlos Vilas (London: Zed Press, 1985), 41–46.

10. Collins, What Difference.

11. Ibid., 89.

12. Ibid., 89–96.

13. Richard Harris, “Evaluating Nicaragua's Agrarian Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on the Difference a Revolution Can Make,” Latin American Perspectives 14, no. 1 (Winter 1987):101–4.

14. René Escoto and Freddy Amador, “El contexto macroeconómico de la reforma agraria,” Revista de Economía Agrícola, no. 1 (Feb. 1991):11.

15. See Harris, “Evaluating Nicaragua's Agrarian Reform,” 104.

16. See Escoto and Amador, “El contexto macroeconómico,” 10–12.

17. Ibid., 11.

18. Ibid., 14–20.

19. Charles Hale, “Miskitu: Revolution in the Revolution,” NACLA Report on the Americas 25, no. 3 (Dec. 1991):25.

20. Ibid., 26.