Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZAPATA AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, by John Womack Jr. A young (31) Harvard historian tells the great revolutionary's story with skill, judgment and a sense of compassion.
OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. One of the leaders of the near-revolution that shook France during last year's fateful "days of May" joins forces with his brother to examine the student-worker revolt. Their absorbing chronicle concludes by blaming the...
In an incisive study of France's problems today entitled The New French Revolution, British Journalist John Ardagh points out that "Paris over the centuries has sucked the blood out of her provinces." Things were set up that way back in the early days of the French Revolution, when...
John Womack Jr.'s social history of the Mexican Revolution is scholarly, engrossing and highly sympathetic to Zapata. A Harvard professor of Latin American history, Womack, 31, clearly shows that Zapata's fidelity and incorruptibility were deeply rooted in the bitter struggle of Morelos farmers to guard their...
Outside his home ground, Zapata was frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of...