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A Review of Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective Edited by Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo David Rockefeller Series on Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and Institute for Latin American Studies, University of London.
Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Merilee grindle biography of george washington
2003
In April of 1952, Bolivia, an obscure, landlocked, country with a mining economy and an impoverished indigenous majority in the heart of South America jumped to the front pages of the world press with the news of its social revolution.
The rapid displacement of its mining and agricultural oligarchies through nationalization and the expropriation of the haciendas in its highly populated Western highlands and move by its leading National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) to establish a mass-based democracy was an earth-shaking event on the Latin American political landscape.
Indeed, at this moment in mid-20th century, Bolivia was only