Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

by James Dunkerley

In 1952 Bolivia was transformed by revolution. With the army destroyed from only a few days of fighting, workers and peasants took up arms to claim the country as their own. Overnight, the electorate expanded five-fold. Industries were turned over to worker organizations to manage, and land was distributed to peasant communities. Education became universal and free for the first time in the country's history.

This volume, the result of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011414
• ISBN13: 9780674011410
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American S
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 9.0"