Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520298057)

For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende's attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the Vanguard, Marian E. Schlotterbeck explores popular politics in Chile in the decade before Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and provides an in-depth account of how working-class people transformed the existing social order by embracing radical politics. Schlotterbeck eloquently examines the lost opportunities for creating a democratic revolution and the ways that the legacy of this period continues to resonate in Chile and beyond.

Learn more about the author and this book in an interview published online with Jacobin.

Author: Marian E. Schlotterbeck
ISBN-10: 0520298055
ISBN-13: 9780520298057
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2018
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2018