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Title: Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995 (Latin America Otherwise) by Steve J. Stern ISBN: 0-8223-2217-X Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A revolution that only brought suffering & death
Comment: "Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980 - 1995," by Editor Steve J. Stern is a collection of essays that vividly documents a revolution that only brought suffering and death. This five-part book traces the roots of the Shining Path from its heady beginning to the conquest that failed.
Part One is dry. However, Part Two & Three generate much more interest. I found Ponciano del Pino, Nelson Manrique, Orin Starr, Jo-Marie Burt and Patricia Oliart the best of the bunch. They crystallized the subject...bringing it to life and provided stimulating insights.
Shining Path started in rural Ayacucho in the late 1970's and eventually made its way into the urban centers, particularly Villa El Salvador outside of Lima nearly ten years later. Initially Shining Path was ethical and moral. The Founding Father of the movement Professor Abimael Guzman instructed his Indian followers to punish adultery, alcoholism, vagrancy, robbery and cattle rustling. Moreover, the young flocked to the revolutionary rhetoric of a "people's war."
Early on the Shining Path maintained good ties with the peasants in the countryside. However, this did not last for long because in 1983 - 1984 the armed forces implemented a brutal "dirty war" that forced the guerrillas away from traditional regions of support and into new territory where they too used fear and intimidation tactics against the local peasant population.
Eventually, the Shining Path went out of control...conducting terrible massacres against unarmed civilians and forcing children into its ranks. The tide turned against the Shining Path with the 1990 election of President Alberto Fujimori. The new president accelerated the organization of self-defense groups among the unprotected peasant population with the distribution of shotguns, rifles and handguns.
The unfortunate part of the Shining Path revolution was that the poor were trapped in violence from both sides. However, the true downfall of the Shining Path is that at the end they were nothing but ruthless terrorists who preyed on the poor.
Bert Ruiz
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting and Informed
Comment: This book collects the thoughts of Peruvians and Peruvianists on the terrible decade of the 1980s - the most thorough and nuanced account of Sendero Luminoso I have read, with attention to many events in a variety of regions of the country. The reader really walks away with a sense of what this period was like for the people who lived through it.
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Title: The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion, Em Traducao) by Gustavo Gorriti Ellenbogen, Robin Kirk, Gustavo Gorriti ISBN: 0807846767 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Shining Path of Peru by David Scott Palmer ISBN: 031210619X Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy by Maxwell A. Cameron, Philip Mauceri ISBN: 0271016612 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
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Title: Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America by Elizabeth Jelin, Eric Hershberg, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies ISBN: 0813324394 Publisher: Perseus Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson ISBN: 0618221395 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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