This collection represents 309 books, collected by Walter J. Petry from 1983-1992. They have been written or edited by historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, journalists and travelers on various aspects of the Revolution.
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The Contras : interviews with anti-Sandinistas
Dieter Eich and Carlos Rincón
Who are the Contras, the anti-Sandinista forces that President Reagan is determined to support? Eich, head of West Germany's Development Agency in Nicaragua, and Dr. Rincon, formerly of UNESCO, have interviewed Contras from the prisons of Nicaragua as well as from training camps in the United States and Central America. Along with those once of Somoza's National Guard, anxious to regain their easy lives of luxury, are some uneducated peasants ``recruited'' into the movement.
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Pueblos en armas
Marta Harnecker
Interviews about Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala originally published in journals.
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Fogata en la oscurana : los talleres de poesía en la alfabetización
Mayra Jiménez
Anthology of poems by Nicaraguans recently taught to read and write by the Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetización.
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Nicaragua, the Sandinista People's Revolution : speeches by Sandinista leaders
Bruce Marcus
Speeches, articles, and interviews on the fight against Washington’s contra war, the fight for equality by the peoples of the Atlantic Coast, and more.
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Nicaragua : the threat of a good example?
Dianna Melrose
Nicaragua is a poor and underdeveloped country about the size of England and Wales. This report is based on Oxfam's experience of over twenty years work there. The new Nicaraguan approach to development, based on the needs of the poor majority and the participation of ordinary people, offers real hope to the poor.
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The democratic mask : the consolidation of the Sandinista revolution
Douglas W. Payne
This, the first fully documented account of the Sandinista strategy for imposing a Marxist-Leninist rule on Nicaragua, should dispel any illusions about the Sandinista vision of Nicaragua's future. An introductory essay by the author argues persuasively that the national elections of November 1984 were successfully exploited by the Sandinistas to consolidate their revolutionary rule. The core of the book is a documented chronology of events, charting the course of the Sandinistas from early 1979 up to the sixth anniversary of the revolution.
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Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas. English;"Psychological operations in guerrilla warfare
Tayacán., Joanne Omang, and Aryeh Neier
Here published for the first time in book form, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare is the manual written by the Central Intelligence Agency and disseminated by its surrogates among the "contras" - anti-Sandinista rebels- in Nicaragua. It caused a storm of controversy when it's existence was first revealed, and President Reagan promised a detailed inquiry. But only a few low-level employees of the agency were ever reprimanded, and the matter was then officially closed. The issue of the legality of United States involvement in the was in Nicaragua remains, as Joanne Omang, Washington Post correspondent, and Aryeh Neier, vice chairman of Americas Watch, demonstrate in their essays. The manual represents a way of thinking about the world that many Americans believed had ended in Vietnam. Yet clearly the belief persists within the U.S. foreign-policy establishment that we may impose our will abroad without undue political or moral consequences. The controversy created by this manual suggests that, on the contrary, the cost to the United States of illegal covert activity in countries such as Nicaragua may be very high
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Nicaragua : the first five years
Thomas W. Walker
This book is an examination of the evolving social and political atmosphere during the first half decade after the Sandinist revolution. Written by eminent scholars and participants Nicaragua documents the rapid social change that has occurred during the last five years. The essays focus on agrarian reform, education, health care, food policy, and Nicaragua's relations with the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and the non-alligned and socialist bloc nations.
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The war in Nicaragua
William Walker and Robert Houston
This is a facsimile of William Walker's account, originally published in 1860, of his invasion and conquest of Nicaragua; doctor, lawyer, newspaper editor, politician, adventurer, liberator, imperialist, Walker sailed to Nicaragua with a band of mercenaries in 1855, joined with rebel forces in a civil war, defeated the national army, seized the capital, and gained control of the country until 1857 when he was forced to leave by the U.S. Navy; after twice trying to regain control of Nicaragua, he was captured and executed in Hondorus in 1860; foreword by Robert Houston.
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Nicaragua : a new kind of revolution
Philip Zwerling and Connie Martin
The author, a minister, spent time in Nicaragua, a country then at war, and interviewed 45 different people. In the author's view, he was witnessing a Christian revolution in the making.
