Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution

RICHARD STAHLER-SHOLK Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College, CaliforniaCYNTHIA CHAVEZ METOYER Assistant Professor, California State UniversityPIERRE M. LA RAMEE Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), New YorkERICA G. POLAKOFF Assistant Professor of Sociology and Sociology Coordinator, Bloomfield College, New Jersey

'The book, while assuming some familiarity with context, is sufficiently clear and straightforward in style and content to aid undergraduates in updating and deepening their knowledge of Central America and the Sandinista revolution.' - Choice 'Valuable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on contemporary Nicaraguan politics and society, has much to recommend it.' - Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs '... a competent synthesis.' - Comparative Politics 'The book, while assuming some familiarity with context, is sufficiently clear and straightforward in style and content to aid undergraduates in updating and deepening their knowledge of Central America and the Sandinista revolution.' - Choice 'Valuable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on contemporary Nicaraguan politics and society, has much to recommend it.' - Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 'Prevost and Vanden's edited volume is a competent synthesis whose goal is to explain why the revolution failed and whether the major gains of the revolutionary period were eroded or reversed by the Chamorro government (1990-97) that followed the FSLN.' - Comparative Politics

• List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Preface to the 1999 Reprint Introduction The Status of the Sandinista Revolutionary Project; G.Prevost Democracy Derailed the 1990 Elections and After; H.E.Vanden Structural Adjustment and Resistance: The Political Economy of Nicaragua under Chamorro; R.Stahler-Sholk Nicaragua's Transition of State Power: Through Feminist Lenses; C.C.Metoyer The Grass-Roots Organizations in Nicaragua; P.M.LaRamee and E.G.Polakoff Bibliography Index