Shining Path Guerrilla War In Perus Northern Highlands 19801997 Taylor by Taylor, Lewis 9781846310041, 9781800855489, 9781846310164, 1846310040, 1800855486, 1846310164 instant download after payment.

"During the 1980s and early 1990s, Peru suffered one of the bloodiest civil wars in contemporary Latin America as the state attempted to quell the insurrection launched by the Partido Comunista del Peru-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL), commonly known as Sendero Luminoso ('Shining Path'). In this book, Lewis Taylor introduces the PCP-SL and places its activities in the context of developments in other regions of Peru and more general scholarly work on questions of rural revolt and revolution. He considers the PCP-SL's attempts to build up its party structure during the early phase of the insurrection, analyses how the organization was able to expand and intensity its level of operations between 1982 and 1992, and examines the factors that caused the PCP-SL to enter into a period of retreat in the year after 1992."--BOOK JACKET.