Red October
Subtitle: left-indigenous struggles in modern Bolivia
By: by Jeffery R. Webber
Series: Historical materialism book series -- v. 29
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789004201552
Subjects: Politics and government; Government relations; Peasants; Indians of South America; Social change; Political activity; Social conflict; Right and left (Political science); Social movements
Description: "Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales' successful bid to become the country's first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today's oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.