TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starn,Orin
AU  - La Serna,Miguel
TI  - The Shining Path: love, madness, and revolution in the Andes
SN  - 9780393292800
AV  - F3448.2 .S73 2019
U1  - 985.0643 20
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton & Company
KW  - Sendero Luminoso (Grupo Guerrillero)
KW  - Revoluciones
KW  - Perú
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Guerra de guerrillas
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Comunismo
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - 1968-1980
KW  - 1980-
N1  - The train to Machu Picchu -- A tree can be a weapon -- Comrade Norah -- The great rupture -- First blood -- The lynching -- Inquest in the Andes -- Shouting in the rocks -- The Queen of Villa -- The shining trench -- The Party Congress -- The death of Comrade Norah -- The revolution comes to Villa -- A fish out of water -- Ghostbusters -- The clever frog -- The birthday party -- A death foretold -- The wolf and the whale -- Fat cheeks, affirmative! -- The silence of the lambs
N2  - "A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru long after the fall of global communism. The tale of the Shining Path may be the most gripping saga in modern Latin American history, but its full story has never been told. Described by a U.S. State Department cable as 'cold-blooded and bestial,' this band of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionaries mounted a guerrilla war in the 1980s that led to more than 60,000 deaths or disappearances. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzm©Łn, who launched his quixotic insurrection based on outmoded, dogmatic ideology alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparaguirre, who abandoned her family to join the war. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna's narrative also introduces the mountain villagers who organized a fierce resistance, the mercurial black activist Mar©Ưa Elena Moyano, and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. Dramatic and engaging, The Shining Path takes the reader into the heart of this brutal rebellion, and the lives and country it nearly destroyed"--
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