Author: Ronald M. SchneiderPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Communism in Guatemala, 1944-1954
Author: Ronald M. SchneiderPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Shattered Hope
Author: Piero GleijesesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400843499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
Communism in Guatemala 1944-1954
Author: Ronald M. ScneiderCase Study in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Communist Party's Infiltration of the Guatemalan Revolution: 1944-1954
Author: Gregory F. ArvayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Communism in Guatemala
Author: Roland Milton SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Managing the Counterrevolution
Author: Stephen M. StreeterPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896802159
Category : Counterrevolutionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Eisenhower administration's intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of "counterrevolution" to trace the Eisenhower administration's efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite. Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutions in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Chile reveals that Washington's efforts to roll back "communism" in Latin America and elsewhere during the Cold War represented in reality a short-term strategy to protect core American interests from the rising tide of Third World nationalism.
United States-Guatemalan Relations 1944-1954
Author: Edward Paul CrapolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guatemala
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare: Guatemala, 1944-1954. Primary research responsiblity: N.A. LaCharité, R.O. Kennedy, and P.M. Thienel
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Secret History, Second Edition
Author: Nick CullatherPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804754683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of “regime change” that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Since 1999, a number of documents relating to the CIA’s activities in Guatemala have been declassified, and a truth and reconciliation process has unearthed other reports, speeches, and writings that shed more light on the role of the United States. For this edition, the author has selected and annotated twenty-one documents for a new documentary Appendix, including President Clinton’s apology to the people of Guatemala.