Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War / Greg Grandin  1

Part One: The First Cold War  

violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz  45

Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott  62

On the Road to "El Porvenir": A Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey R. Gould  88

Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller Klubock  121

Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture  

The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase  163

Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009 / Lillian Guerra  199

Part Three: The Weight of the Night  

The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn  239

A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister  276

"People's War," "Dirty War": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo R�que  309

The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medell�Miracle, Colombia / Forrest Hylton  338

Reflections  

You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin  371

Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil Larsen  381

Conclusions  

Latin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph  397

History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg Grandin  415

Contributors  423

Index  427

Friedrich Katz

Jocelyn H. Olcott

Jeffrey L. Gould

Thomas Miller Klubock

Michelle Chase

Lillian Guerra

Peter Winn

Carlota McAllister

Gerardo Rénique

Forrest Hylton

Corey Robin

Neil Larsen

Arno J. Mayer

“It has become commonplace when reviewing edited books to note that the quality of the chapters is uneven. Happily, I will not resort to saying this here, since all the chapters are excellent! This book reexamines twentieth-century Latin American history by focusing on key revolutionary and counterrevolutionary moments and movements across the region and the connections between them. The result is a stimulating discussion of the role that violence played in giving rise to revolutionary attempts to end injustice, how revolutionary movements conceptualized and employed violence to achieve their goals, and how counterrevolutionary forces ruthlessly unleashed violence to subdue and eliminate, literally and figuratively, revolutionaries and the possibility of revolutionary change.”—Margaret Power, The Americas

“A Century of Revolution has much of value to offer. . . . The ten essays by Latin Americanists in A Century of Revolution bear out the considerable historiographical value of the reinterpretive efforts in which Grandin and Joseph have been engaged for over a decade.“—Arthur Schmidt, A Contracorriente

“. . . [E]xcellent case studies based on careful archival work that broaden our understanding of Latin America’s experience of the Cold War in the twentieth century.”— Paulo Drinot, Cold War History

“The combined expertise of Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph makes A Century of Revolution analytically rich, especially in describing of the growing agency of mass organizations. . . . A Century of Revolution offers a nuanced theoretical framework, which can help historians interested in new models of analysis to explain the dynamics of late-twentieth-century Latin America.”—Alejandro Quintana, History: Reviews of New Books

“The narrative of revolutionary violence on a grand scale has been essential to fueling the virulence of counter-revolution, an essential component of the story. This collection is particularly successful in showing how, in case after case, counterrevolutionary violence has played a crucial role in shaping and even adding fuel to revolution. . . . [T]his rich collection is more than the sum of its parts. It helps us to think in fresh ways about one of the most important issues in Latin American history.”—HÉCTOR Lindo-Fuentes, Journal of Latin American Studies

“Yet few works provide a perspective as wide-ranging as A Century of Revolution. This important collection — with its careful attention to causes, processes, and outcomes — goes a long way toward debunking the widespread view that political violence is ‘natural’ to Latin America.” —Michael Gobat, Hispanic American Historical Review

“It has become commonplace when reviewing edited books to note that the quality of the chapters is uneven. Happily, I will not resort to saying this here, since all the chapters are excellent! This book reexamines twentieth-century Latin American history by focusing on key revolutionary and counterrevolutionary moments and movements across the region and the connections between them. The result is a stimulating discussion of the role that violence played in giving rise to revolutionary attempts to end injustice, how revolutionary movements conceptualized and employed violence to achieve their goals, and how counterrevolutionary forces ruthlessly unleashed violence to subdue and eliminate, literally and figuratively, revolutionaries and the possibility of revolutionary change.”—Margaret Power, The Americas

“A Century of Revolution has much of value to offer. . . . The ten essays by Latin Americanists in A Century of Revolution bear out the considerable historiographical value of the reinterpretive efforts in which Grandin and Joseph have been engaged for over a decade.“—Arthur Schmidt, A Contracorriente

“. . . [E]xcellent case studies based on careful archival work that broaden our understanding of Latin America’s experience of the Cold War in the twentieth century.”— Paulo Drinot, Cold War History

“The combined expertise of Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph makes A Century of Revolution analytically rich, especially in describing of the growing agency of mass organizations. . . . A Century of Revolution offers a nuanced theoretical framework, which can help historians interested in new models of analysis to explain the dynamics of late-twentieth-century Latin America.”—Alejandro Quintana, History: Reviews of New Books

“The narrative of revolutionary violence on a grand scale has been essential to fueling the virulence of counter-revolution, an essential component of the story. This collection is particularly successful in showing how, in case after case, counterrevolutionary violence has played a crucial role in shaping and even adding fuel to revolution. . . . [T]his rich collection is more than the sum of its parts. It helps us to think in fresh ways about one of the most important issues in Latin American history.”—HÉCTOR Lindo-Fuentes, Journal of Latin American Studies

“Yet few works provide a perspective as wide-ranging as A Century of Revolution. This important collection — with its careful attention to causes, processes, and outcomes — goes a long way toward debunking the widespread view that political violence is ‘natural’ to Latin America.” —Michael Gobat, Hispanic American Historical Review

“The abstract rejection of violence is one of the pillars of today’s hegemonic liberal ideology, and is paradoxically used to legitimize the most brutal forms of actual violence. This is why this outstanding book not only offers an excellent study of the Latin American revolutionary process, but has universal relevance. Its precise analysis of the necessary role of emancipatory violence against the violence of the system itself brings a breath of fresh air into the stale moralism of the liberal Left. A much-needed awakening from our humanitarian dogmatic dream!”—Slavoj Žižek

“Showcasing the work of a remarkable group of scholars, this collection provides a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin America’s twentieth century and a thought-provoking intervention into our understanding of the history and meaning of political violence.”—Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution

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