Before the Shining Path

Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980

By: Jaymie Heilman

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Hardcover | 23 July 2010

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From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, Before the Shining Path is the first long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political, economic, and social antecedents in Ayacucho, the department where the Shining Path initiated its war. This study uncovers rural Ayacucho's vibrant but largely unstudied twentieth-century political history and contends that the Shining Path was the last and most extreme of a series of radical political movements that indigenous peasants pursued.

The Shining Path's violence against rural indigenous populations exposed the tight hold of anti-Indian prejudice inside Peru, as rebels reproduced the same hatreds they aimed to defeat. But, this was nothing new. Heilman reveals that minute divides inside rural indigenous communities repeatedly led to violent conflict across the twentieth century.

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"Before the Shining Path is a major contribution to our understanding of the precursors to revolutionary violence; it will appeal to students, academic specialists, and policy analysts alike." - David Scott Palmer, Hispanic American Historical Review "Well-written, impressively researched, and with a compelling argument about the rise of [the Shining Path] that also complicates dominant interpretations of key political processes in Peru's twentieth century, Heilman's Before the Shining Path is a first-rate contribution to the scholarship on Peru's 'time of fear'." - Paulo Drinot, Journal of Latin American Studies "Heilman's book is a fascinating study of the historical antecedents of the Partido Comunista del Peru..." - Agustin Goenaga Orrego, Bulletin of Spanish Studies "Heilman bases Before the Shining Path in part of archival material, but the best information comes from extensive interviews and participant observation. This work could not have been easy and at certain points may even have been dangerous. She is to be congratulated for undertaking the research and for producing a convincingly argued and well-written monograph." - David McCreery, Agricultural History "This book is a thought-provoking intervention in the historical debates on political participation, protest, and violence in the Peruvian sierra throughout the twentieth century ... I highly recommend Heilman's book for students and scholars of Peruvian history, peasant movements, and political violence, as well as practitioners of archival and ethnographic methodologies." - Onur Bakiner, Latin American Politics and Society

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Small Towns and Giant Hells: The Politics of Abandon in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1919	p. 15
To Unify Those of Our Race: The Tawantinsuyo Movement in 1920s Ayacucho	p. 42
We Will No Longer Be Servile: Peasants, Populism, and APRA in 1930s Ayacucho	p. 71
When the Ink Dries: The Politics of Literacy in Midcentury Ayacucho	p. 96
The Last Will Be First: Trotskyism and Popular Action in the Belaúnde Years	p. 120
Unfinished Revolutions: Ayacucho and the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, 1968-1978	p. 148
Abandoned Again: 1978 Onward	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 191
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 243
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Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980

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