The Shining Path
Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
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Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna trace Peru's Shining Path insurgency through revolutionary ideology, violence, personal relationships, and the communities caught in the conflict.
The book opens the South America path with a country-specific study of revolution, state response, and memory in Peru.
Why I include it
Begin in Peru with a political history that remains attentive to individual lives and the costs of ideological violence.
