The Shining Path of Peru

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: History, Politics, and Shining Path in Peru

   • David Scott Palmer

   Pages 1-32

3. Taking the High Ground: Shining Path and the Andes

   • Michael L. Smith

   Pages 33-50

4. The Origins and Logic of Shining Path: Two Views

   • Carlos Iván Degregori

   Pages 51-75

5. Shining Path and Peasant Responses in Rural Ayacucho

   • Billie Jean Isbell

   Pages 77-99

6. Peasant Responses to Shining Path in Andahuaylas

   • Ronald H. Berg

   Pages 101-122

7. Guerrillas and Coca in the Upper Huallaga Valley

   • José E. Gonzales

   Pages 123-143

8. Shining Path’s Urban Strategy: Ate Vitarte

   • Michael L. Smith

   Pages 145-165

9. Shining Path’s Stalin and Trotsky

   • Gustavo Gorriti

   Pages 167-188

10. The Organization of Shining Path

    • Gabriela Tarazona-Sevillano

    Pages 189-208

11. Making Revolution with Shining Path

    • Tom Marks

    Pages 209-223

12. Shining Path and the Marxist Left

    • Sandra Woy-Hazleton, William A. Hazleton

    Pages 225-242

13. Theories of Revolution and the Case of Peru

    • Cynthia McClintock

    Pages 243-258

14. Conclusion: The View from the Windows

    • David Scott Palmer

    Pages 259-273

15. Back Matter

    Pages 275-299

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This is the first book in English to provide a truly comprehensive view of Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso ), a major guerilla movement in Peru. Sendero 's Maoist principles first begin in the 1960s with a small band of supporters and no attention from the outside world, but later emerged as the most radical and dogmatic expression of Marxist revolution in the Hemisphere .

• culture
• Latin America
• Latin American culture
• political science
• politics

• Boston University, USA

  David Scott Palmer

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