Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara / Edition 1

by Ernesto Che Guevara, Mary-Alice Waters, Inti Peredo

Overview

Guevara’s day-by-day chronicle of the 1966–67 guerrilla campaign in Bolivia, an effort to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants and open the road to socialist revolution in South America.

Includes excerpts from the diaries and accounts of other combatants, including—for the first time in English—My Campaign with Che by Bolivian leader Inti Peredo.

Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9789590104244).

“His day-to-day chronicle of the eleven-month guerrilla campaign in 1966-67 is a powerful narrative providing insight into the practical activity, leadership capacities, and political thinking of one of the outstanding communist leaders of the twentieth century.” —Michigan Quarterly Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873487665
Publisher:	Pathfinder Press GA
Publication date:	11/01/1994
Series:	The Cuban Revolution in World Politics
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 8.28(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine-born central leader of the Cuban Revolution. Guevara was a Rebel Army commander during Cuba’s 1956–58 revolutionary war; held central responsibilities in revolutionary government, including minister of industry and president of the National Bank; led volunteer internationalist columns in Congo 1965, Bolivia 1966–67; wounded, captured, and murdered by Bolivian army in CIA-organized operation.

His writings published by Pathfinder Press include:

Che Guevara Talks to Young People (2000)

Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War 1956–58 (1996)

Bolivian Diary (1994)

“On the Concept of Value: A Reply to Albert Mora” and “The Meaning of Socialist Planning: A Reply to Charles Bettelheim,” both in New International no. 8 (1991)

Che Guevara Speaks (1967)

Editorial Reviews

“Waters’ meticulously edited pair of volumes is now the best original source for English-speaking scholars. Her attention to detail and her precision do not overcome the rough eloquence that was Guevara’s style.” —Hispanic American Historical Review

“Che’s diary remains a fascinating read, dispirited and hopeful at the same time, and abruptly terminated.” —Foreign Affairs

“He embodied the attitudes and values of the 1960s, a decade whose ramifications have still not been fully understood.” —Times Literary Supplement

“Pathfinder Press in publishing [this book] has performed a major service for a new generation of activists and scholars.” —James Petras, Binghamton University

From the Publisher

Waters’ meticulously edited pair of volumes [Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War and The Bolivian Diary] is now the best original source for English-speaking scholars. Her attention to detail and her precision do not overcome the rough eloquence that was Guevara’s style; the transcendental message of a new moral order bites through the prose with deceptive simplicity.

Hispanic American Historical Review

Beautifully edited and illustrated.
— Hispanic American Historical Review

Russell W. Ramsey