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008			191104s2020 inuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019037145
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020			_a9780268106898 _qhardcover
020			_a0268106894 _qhardcover
020			_z9780268106928 _qelectronic book
020			_z9780268106911 _qelectronic publication
035			_a(OCoLC)1090749599
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dYDX _dUtOrBLW _dMiTN _dUtOrBLW
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050	0	0	_aF1528 _b.S54 2020
100	1		_aSierakowski, Robert J., _d1983-
245	1	0	_aSandinistas : _ba moral history / _cRobert J. Sierakowski.
264		1	_aNotre Dame, Indiana : _bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, _c[2020]
300			_axvii, 320 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aState of Disorder : Vice, Corruption, and the Somoza Dictatorship -- Burning Down the Brothels : Moral Regeneration and the Emergence of Sandinismo, 1956-1970 -- Persecuting the Living Christ : Guerrillas, Catholics, and Repression, 1968-1976 -- "They Planted Corn and Harvested Guardias" : Somoza's National Guard and Secret Police at the Grassroots -- "A Crime to Be Young" : Families in Insurrection, September 1976-September 1978 -- "How Costly Is Freedom!" : Massacres, Community, and Sacrifice, October 1978-July 1979 -- Epilogue : Whither the Revolution? Nicaragua and the Sandinistas since 1979.
520			_a"Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories, offer a new vantage point beyond geopolitics and ideologies to understand the central role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans. Focusing on the country's rural north, Sierakowski explores how a diverse coalition of labor unionists, student activists, housewives, and peasants inspired by Catholic liberation theology came to successfully challenge the legitimacy of the Somoza dictatorship and its entrenched networks of power. Mobilizing communities against the ubiquitous cantinas, gambling halls, and brothels, grassroots organizers exposed the regime's complicity in promoting social ills, disorder, and quotidian violence while helping to construct radical new visions of moral uplift and social renewal. Sierakowski similarly recasts our understanding of the Nicaraguan National Guard, grounding his study of the Somozas' army in the social and cultural world of the ordinary soldiers who enlisted and fought in defense of the dictatorship. As the military responded to growing opposition with heightened state terror and human rights violations, repression culminated in widespread civilian massacres, stories that are unearthed for the first time in this work. These atrocities further exposed the regime's moral breakdown in the eyes of the public, pushing thousands of previously unaligned Nicaraguans into the ranks of the guerrilla insurgency by the late 1970s. Sierakowski's innovative reinterpretation of the Sandinista Revolution will be of interest to students, scholars, and activists concerned with Latin American social movements, the Cold War, and human rights."-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aFrente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional _xHistory.
611	2	7	_aRevolution (Nicaragua : 1979) _2fast
651		0	_aNicaragua _xPolitics and government _y1979-1990.
651		0	_aNicaragua _xHistory _yRevolution, 1979 _xMoral and ethical aspects.
651		0	_aNicaragua _xPolitics and government _y1937-1979.
651		0	_aNicaragua _xSocial conditions.
651		0	_aNicaragua _xPolitics and government _y1990-
648		7	_aSince 1937 _2fast.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSierakowski, Robert James, 1983- _tSandinistas _dNotre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] _z9780268106928 _w(DLC) 2019037146.
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