The Shining Path

by Gorriti Ellenbogen, Gustavo; Kirk, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780807823736
• ISBN10: 0807823732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

A gripping account of Peru's guerrilla insurgency, known as the Shining Path, which plagued the nation for over fifteen years.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix	(6)
Robin Kirk
Preface to the English Edition	xv	(4)
Preface	xix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xxi	(4)
Abbreviations	xxv
The Arrest	1	(6)
1 Return to Democracy	7	(10)
2 Chuschi	17	(4)
3 Mohammed, Mao, Macbeth	21	(16)
4 Expectations and the Transfer of Power	37	(6)
5 The Vanished Files	43	(12)
6 The Dogs of War	55	(22)
7 Guerrillas	77	(12)
8 The Quota	89	(18)
9 To Capture Weapons and Means	107	(12)
10 New Democracy	119	(13)
11 Tambo	132	(6)
12 The Emergency	138	(19)
13 Illusions	157	(6)
14 A City Dominated: A Blow Is Struck in Ayacucho	163	(11)
15 Let Us Develop the Guerrilla War	174	(15)
16 The Offer of Asylum to Guzman	189	(9)
17 The Colloquium of the Blind: The Intelligence War	198	(16)
18 The Fall of Vilcashuaman	214	(17)
19 Party Military Thought	231	(7)
20 The Siege of Ayacucho	238	(25)
Notes	263	(18)
Index	281