2nd Edition

Revolution In El Salvador From Civil Strife To Civil Peace, Second Edition

By Tommie Sue Montgomery Copyright 1995
360 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1982, El Salvador has experienced the most radical social change in its history. Ten years of civil war, in which a tenacious and creative revolutionary movement battled a larger, better-equipped, U.S.-supported army to a standstill, have ended with twenty months of negotiations and a peace accord that promises to change the course of Salvadorean... Read more
Introduction—Fifteen Years Later: Peace at Last -- Prologue: Recollections and Reflections—Fifteen Years in El Salvador -- The Roots of Revolution, 1524–1960 -- Challenges to Power, 1960–1980 -- The Church -- The Revolutionaries -- Descent into Anarchy, 1980–1982 -- High-Intensity Politics and Low-Intensity Conflict, 1982–1984 -- Electoral Authoritarianism and the Revolutionary Challenge, 1984–1989 -- The Road to Peace, 1989–1994 -- Epilogue: The Electronic Tamale

Biography

Montgomery, Tommie Sue