Exploring Revolution

TIMOTHY P. WICKHAM-CROWLEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, where he also advises undergraduates as Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program. His teaching and research interests lie generally in comparative political sociology and Latin America, with a special focus on social movements, revolutions, development, and inequality., Wickham-Crowley has published several artic1es on guerrillas, terror, and revolution, and is the author of the forthcoming work, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America (1991). He is currently studying and writing on the comparative experience of development and underdevelopment in the New World since 1500.

• Tables and Figures, Preface, Part One. The Béret and the Sandal: Exploring the Guerrilla-Peasant Encounter, 1. The Revolutionary Process and Theories of Social Movements, 2. The Rise and Sometimes Fall of Guerrilla Governments in Latin America, 3. Terror and Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America, 1956-70, 4. Ideology and Revolution? The Limitations of Consciousness Raising in Revolutionary Struggles, Part Two. Where Theory Contempiates Practice: Exploring the Outeornes of Theoretical and Revolutionary Conflicts, 5. Revolutionary Outcomes and Theories of Revolution, 6. What Makes Peasants Insurrectionary?, 7. Of Peasant-based Rebellions and Weak Regimes: Adapting Revolutionary Theories to Latin American Realities, Index