In Review
Latin America and the Comintern 1919-1943 by Manuel Caballero. Cambridge University Press, 1987, 224 pp. $39.50 (cloth). A detailed, well-documented history of the Third International in...
...An eye-witness account of an Army attack on a Guatemalan village and its tragic aftermath...
...Monthly Review Press-Center for the Study of the Americas, 1986, 352 pp...
...The Struggle for the Third World: Soviet Debates and American Options by Jerry F. Hough...
...William Morrow and Company, 1986, 480 pp...
...The sections on Latin America suggest that within the Soviet academic establishment there are several schools of thought on these issues...
...Hough attempts to analyze the relation of scholarly discussions to the Soviet policy-making apparatus...
...5 (paper...
...An in-depth investigation of the current practices of Salvadorean security forces and the effect of the escalating U.S...
...Contragate fans will find interesting historical details on everything from Southern Air Transport to the National Security Council...
...Although the author skims over political and social conditions within Latin American countries, he provides lengthy, critical analyses of Comintern tactical shifts and of how the CPs and the International viewed capitalist development, trade unions, peasant and Indian questions, electoral work, class alliances and insurrectionary activity...
...involvement in training, equipping and funding their operations...
...The book examines the different periods of Comintern history, theoretical problems and ways it dealt with the question of political power...
...16.95 (cloth...
...A clearly written and insightful contribution to the analysis of Third World development and the transition to socialism...
...Prados describes practically every known recent instance of secret warfare and provides much new material gleaned from presidential papers and government documents provided under the Freedom of Information Act...
...12.00 (paper...
...Part Two consists of case studies of Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Costa Rica...
...Originally compiled by the CIA as The World Fact Book, this reference guide provides information on the economy, government, geography, demographics and national defense establishments of 206 nations and other political entities...
...Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II by John Prados...
...Caballero discusses the founding of different Latin American Communist Parties, their relations with Moscow, their efforts to first confront and then unite with nationalist and populist currents and their often dramatic efforts to take power...
...An appendix provides biographical sketches of various leaders...
...8.95 (paper...
...The Brookings Institution, 1986, 293 pp...
...The 14 articles focus on the problems of combining economic growth and equity, creating viable forms of participatory politics and defending revolutionary societies against foreign attack...
...El Salvador Update: Counterterrorism in Action, an El Rescate Human Rights Department report in conjunction with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 1986...
...Part One deals with Soviet-Latin American relations, Soviet scholars' views on Central America and the Soviets' relations to insurgencies...
...Handbook of the Nations, published by Gale Research Co., 1986, 292 pp...
...policy-makers have been overly confrontational and slow to understand the changes in the USSR since Stalin...
...While the authors' viewpoints vary, most see relations with the USSR as a means of diversifying regional development options and achieving greater international autonomy vis A vis the United States...
...Behind the jargon and surface unanimity of Soviet social science writing, there have often been serious debates on questions of policy, theory and historical fact...
...academics, and CRIES [Regional Coordinator of Socio-Economic Research], a Managua-based consortium of Central American research centers...
...78 (cloth...
...Montejo provides a penetrating look into the contemporary life of the rural Mayan population which has been the target of the government's violent attempts to "pacify" the country...
...34.50 (cloth...
...A highly relevant, well-written history of the past four decades of covert U.S.-supported terrorism and meddling in other countries' business...
...A detailed, well-documented history of the Third International in Latin America by a scholar at Venezuela's Institute of Advanced International Studies...
...Westview Press, 1987, 260 pp...
...Based on an extensive reading of Soviet writings and interviews with some 200 Soviet scholars, Hough discusses how Soviet social scientists have approached questions of historical process, economic development and Western investment, the nature of political systems, revolutionary strategy and international relations...
...32.95 (cloth...
...An anthology by 10 Latin American scholars analyzing Soviet policy in the Western Hemisphere...
...Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism edited by Richard R. Fagen, Carmen Diana Deere and Jos6 Luis Coraggio...
...Includes maps, tables and useful statistics...
...Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village, by Victor Montejo, Curbstone Press, 1987, 128 pp...
...Among the specific topics considered are the role of external finance in development, agrarian reform, mixed economies, mass organizations and democracy and the mobilization of women...
...The covert activites discussed include campaigns in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America...
...29 pp...
...A joint effort of scholars associated with PACCA [Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America], a national network of U.S...
...A good introduction and a useful corrective to the alarmist interpretations of many North American Sovietologists...
...22.95 (cloth...
...double standards for third world superpower behavior" and argues that U.S...
...12.95 (paper...
...He is critical of what he calls U.S...
...The Nicaraguan experience predominates, although Tanzania, Mozambique, Chile, Cuba and other cases are also discussed in considerable detail...
...Soviet-Latin American Relations in the 1980s edited by Augusto Varas...
Vol. 21 • January 1987 • No. 1
