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Sandinista Communism and Rural Nicaragua: (The Washington Papers)
Sandinista Communism and Rural Nicaragua - The Washington Papers Author:Janusz Bugajski Bugajski evaluates the impact of Sandinista political, economic, and social programs focusing on the confrontations between the regime and Nicaragua's rural population, particularly the Ladino peasantry and the Indian and black indigenous minorities of the Atlantic coast region. The book concentrates on the Sandinista's agrarian strategies in or... more »der to distinguish between short-term policies and long-term programs. It addresses the question of whether any durable and novel ideological, political, and economic elements have been introduced in Nicaragua in terms of Marxist-Leninist models of state socialism--especially vis-a-vis peasantry and the country's ethnic minorities.« less