When the Romance Ended - Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 (Paper)

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-11017-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history a violent coup d'etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A steadily increasing series of explorations, interviews, and images in the popular press and media has begun to unearth the horrors of the dictatorship and its defenders and to reevaluate the stories of the democratically elected Allendists the coup had brutally purged.

Based on interviews and analysis of a generation of young leaders of the Chilean political elite who came to power with Allende's election in 1970, When the Romance Ended focuses on how Allende's followers conceptualize and justify their political objectives and programs through the course of their political victory, violent defeat, and gradual return to politics during Chile's redemocraticization process. Examining the 1960s generation's program of revolutionary social transformation, as well as the integral role the group played in the return to democracy in Chile, Hite explores what happens to the political identities of leaders such as these in a context of traumatic political upheaval and change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hite, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Interpreting Political Identity2. Chile's Revolutionary Generation3. The Binds and Bonds of Party Loyalty4. Personal Loyalists and the Meaning of Allendismo5. Exile and the Thinkers6. The Return: Political Entrepreneurs and the Chilean TransitionConclusion: Political Identity, Post-Authoritarianism of the 1990s, and the Politics of the Possible

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Hite is an assistant professor of political science at Vassar College and is a coeditor of The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation.