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We created Chávez : a people's history of the Venezuelan Revolution / George Ciccariello-Maher ; photographs by Jeff St. Andrews.

by Ciccariello-Maher, George.

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Duke University Press, 2013.

303.4840987 C568w

Chávez Frías, Hugo.

Social movements -- Venezuela -- History.

Venezuela -- History -- Revolution, 1958.

Venezuela -- Politics and government.

9780822354390 (cloth alk. paper)

082235439X (cloth alk. paper)

9780822354529 (pbk. alk. paper)

0822354527 (pbk. alk. paper)

xi, 320 p., 12 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: what people? whose history? -- A guerrilla history -- Reconnecting with the masses -- Birth of the "Tupamaros" -- Interlude : the Caracazo : history splits in two -- Sergio's blood: student struggles from the university to the streets -- Manuelita's boots : women between two movements -- José Leonardo's body and the collapse of mestizaje -- Interlude : every 11th has its 13th -- Venezuelan workers : aristocracy or revolutionary class? -- Oligarchs tremble! : peasant struggles at the margins of the state -- A new proletariat : informal labor and the revolutionary streets -- Conclusion : dual power against the magical state.

St. Andrews, Jeff.

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