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How Difficult It Is to Be God - Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999 (Paperback)
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How Difficult It Is to Be God - Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999 (Paperback)
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The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist
insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru's history,
claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s-1990s and drawing
widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining
Path's initial successes were a mystery. What explained its
cult-like appeal, and what actually happened inside the Andean
communities at war? In How Difficult It Is to Be God Carlos Ivan
Degregori-the world's leading expert on Shining Path and the
intellectual architect for Peru's highly regarded Truth and
Reconciliation Commission-elucidates the movement's dynamics. An
anthropologist who witnessed Shining Path's recruitment of
militants in the 1970s, Degregori grounds his findings in deep
research and fieldwork. He explains not only the ideology and
culture of revolution among the insurgents, but also their capacity
to extend their influence to university youths, Indian communities,
and competing social and political movements. Making Degregori's
most important book available to English-language readers for the
first time, this translation includes a new introduction by the
editor, historian Steve J. Stern, who analyses the author's
achievement, why it matters, and the debates it sparked. For anyone
interested in Peru and Latin America's age of "dirty war," or in
the comparative study of revolutions, Maoism, and human rights,
this book will provide arresting new insights.
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