The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920-1929

ISBN-13: 9781108401289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 303 str.

Sarah Osten

Opis

A social and political history of Mexico's first political system after the Revolution that demonstrates the critical influence of regional socialist parties.

Recenzje

'… It is a truly brilliant book on local political history. Reading this work is therefore highly recommended. It not only explores the local characteristics of the different movements in the southeast, but also how some of them, particularly that of Tabasco, influenced, although in a more moderate version, the formation of the PNR (predecessor of the current Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI) in 1929. And it is in these movements that we find, very clearly, some of the characteristics of that party created at the national level, not so much to come to power, but to keep it and to make Mexican political life a little more 'decent,' the cult of the Mexican Revolution, caciquismo, anti-catholicism, the formation of a national culture and an electoral machine that would become invincible. I emphasize with full conviction: this book must be read.' Herminio Sánchez de la Barquera Arroyo, Iberoamericana

Spis treści

Introduction: Mexico's search for peace and postrevolutionary political institutions; 1. The socialist crucible: Yucatán, 1915–1922; 2. Revolutionary laboratories: the spread of socialism across the Southeast, 1915–1923; 3. Putting the system to the test: The de la Huerta rebellion in the Southeast, 1923–4; 4. A harder line: socialist tabasco, 1920–27; 5. The forgotten revolution: socialist Chiapas, 1924–7; 6. Closing ranks: socialism and anti-reelectionism, 1925–27; 7. A nation of parties; Conclusion: hard lessons.