{"product_id":"sandinistas-a-moral-history-9780268106898","title":"Sandinistas: A Moral History","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power  overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Robert J. Sierakowskis Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a new vantage point of the Sandinista movement beyond geopolitics and ideologies in 1979 Nicaragua. Using unique sources  from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories  Sierakowski shows the central role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans. Focusing on the countrys rural north  Sierakowski explores how a diverse coalition of labor unionists  student activists  housewives  and peasants inspired by Catholic liberation theology came to successfully challenge the legitimacy of the Somoza dictatorship and its entrenched networks of power. Mobilizing communities against the ubiquitous cantinas  gambling halls  and brothels  grassroots organizers exposed the regimes complicity in promoting social ills  disorder  and quotidian violence while helping to construct radical new visions of moral uplift and social renewal. Sierakowski similarly recasts our understanding of the Nicaraguan National Guard  grounding his study of the Somozas army in the social and cultural world of the ordinary soldiers who enlisted and fought in defense of the dictatorship. Sierakowski unearths long buried stories of military repression and violence  including widespread civilian massacres  that pushed thousands of previously unaligned Nicaraguans into the ranks of the guerrilla insurgency by the late 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666291744821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0268106894","price":57.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780268106898.jpg?v=1782427297","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sandinistas-a-moral-history-9780268106898","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}