The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Yvon Grenier

   Pages 1-7

3. Challenging the Dominant Paradigm

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   Pages 9-34

4. From Causes to ‘Causers’

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   Pages 35-66

5. Revolution within the Revolution

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   Pages 67-96

6. The University Vanguard

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   Pages 97-128

7. The Catholic Church, Social Change and Insurrection

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   Pages 129-156

8. Conclusion

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   Pages 157-161

9. Back Matter

   Pages 163-222

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Grenier offers a better understanding of the causes of revolution in El Salvador through an analysis of the central role of ideas and ideologues. The insurgency was not merely the charismatic embodiment of structurally determined processes, as it is commonly suggested, it was the expression of a distinct and forceful political will. The focus is placed on the period of emergence of insurgency (roughly, the 1970s and early 1980s), a period too often confounded (and not only in the Salvadoran case) with subsequent periods of the revolutionary cycle.

• election
• Embodiment
• etiology
• Ideologie
• ideology
• insurgency
• Lenin
• revolution
• social change
• state
• university
• war
• latin american politics

• St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

  Yvon Grenier

YVON GRENIER is Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia, former editor of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and author of many publications, including Guerre et Pouvoir au Salvador (1994).

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