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Book Review of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

People's History of Ideas Podcast

English - August 18, 2019 19:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
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A review of the new book about the civil war in Peru, The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes, by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna. This book is the first history of the Shining Path aimed at the general reading public to come out in a long time. Next episode, we'll return to our series on the historical background to the Chinese Revolution.

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