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• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Part 1 Sandino
• 1 The Making of a Revolutionary
• The Mexican Experience
• The Struggle in Nicaragua
• Revitalizing an Ailing Cause
• Understanding Sandino
• 2 Activating Ideologies
• The Legacy of Mexican Anarchism
• Spiritualist, Freemason, Theosophist
• The Spiritism of the Magnetic-Spiritual School
• The Anarchism of Austere Rational Philosophy
• Sandino's "Rational Communism"
• The Coming "Proletarian Explosion"
• 3 Strategy for Subversion
• Appeals to Patriotism
• Sandino's Liberalism
• The Turn toward Populism
• Sandino and the Comintern
• 4 The War in Nicaragua
• The Yankee "Machos"
• The Bankers of Wall Street
• The "Whited Sepulcher"
• Nicaragua's Political Leaders
• The Defending Army of National Sovereignty
• Stimson or Sandino?
• Part 2 The Sandinistas
• 5 From Sandino to Sandinismo
• Recovering Sandino's Thought
• Transmitting Sandino's Example
• The Marxist Influence
• Promoting the New Marxism
• What Is Sandinismo?
• 6 Political Assessments
• Nicaragua's Neocolonial Status
• The Rise of a Bourgeois Opposition
• The Emergence of a Proletarian Vanguard
• The Development of a Revolutionary Situation
• 7 Reflections on Strategy
• The Original "Foco" Strategy
• The Strategy of Prolonged People's War
• The Strategy of Popular Resistance
• The Strategy of General Insurrection
• 8 Ideologies of the Revolution
• The Cult of the New Man
• The Defense of Human Rights
• The Religious Policy of the FSLN
• Ernesto Cardenal's Tour de Force
• The Ideological Pluralism of the FSLN
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

A scholarly study of Augusto Sandino's thought and the ideology of the Sandinista Front that brings to light new material and novel insights sorely needed to fill the lacuna of research on the ideas undergirding the Nicaraguan revolution. The only previous work in English, David Nolan's The Ideology of the Sandinistas and the Nicaraguan Revolution (1984), contains useful information, but rather shallow and mechanical analysis. Hodges offers a unique interpretation of Sandino as an anarcho-communist and traces the influence of his thought and example, along with liberation theology and the new Latin American Marxism, on the movement bearing his name. Hodges's discussion of the problems and prospects of blending diverse ideological strands is suggestive, but his discussion of the actual content of the resulting synthesis is surprisingly superficial. Two excellent chapters detail Sandinista revolutionary diagnosis and strategy, but the book is thin on postinsurrectional visions and policies for building a ``New Nicaragua.'' Although the original research that unearthed the roots of Sandinista thought represents a real advance, Hodges strains credibility by drawing too restrictive an analogy between the historic and current Sandinista movements. Despite its limitations, students, scholars, and activists alike should appreciate this meaty, yet readable, book.-A.B. Cochran, Agnes Scott College

Booklist Review

Studies of the thinking of past and present revolutionary leaders in Nicaragua reveal a surprising religious component that has activated a political ideology. (Mr 15 87, forthcoming)