The Communist International in Central America, 1920-36

by Rodolfo Cerdaz-Cruz

Overview

A report on the activities of the Komintern in the Isthmus in a crucial period of time. Cerdas-Cruz discusses the debates, reports and resolutions adopted by that organization on such issues as the revolution and its character, and the Party and its nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349119868
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 1993
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

A revolution in incubation - Nicaragua in the 1920s; the indigenous origins of the Sandinista Movement; Nicaragua - a profitable episode for the International - from "Sandino the Hero" to "Sandino the Traitor"; historical and political origins of the Salvadorean Revolution of 1932; Farabundo Marti and the Communist International - hunger in the fields; the Rebellion of the Flower-Eaters - El Salvador 1932; Costa Rica - an original democracy in Central America; the foundation of the Communist Party and its links with the International; a Euro-Communism in the Central America of the 1930s.