Peasants, populism, and postmodernism: the return of the agrarian myth/
Tom Brass
- London: Frank Cass, 2000.
- xii, 380 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Library of peasant studies, no. 17) .
Peasants, Populism and the Agrarian Myth: The Historical Background -- The Agrarian Myth and Peasant Essentialism -- The Agrarian Myth, Nationalism and Popular Culture -- Populism as the 'Other' of Marxism -- The Economic Discourse of Neo-populism, or Small Is Beautiful -- The Politico-ideological Discourse of Populism, or Penultima Ratio Regum -- Nationalism and the Agrarian Myth in the Nineteenth Century -- Populism, Nationalism and the Agrarian Myth in the 1920s and 1930s -- Inca 'Communism' and the Agrarian Myth -- Fascism, Populism and the Agrarian Myth in the 1920s and 1930s -- 'Christ, not Lenin' in Eastern Europe -- Populist Peasants -- Trotskyism, Maoism and Populism in the Andes: Latin American Peasant Movements and the Agrarian Myth -- The Economic Background: La Convencion 1900-1958 -- The Structure and Organization of the Peasant Movement in La Convencion -- The Success of the Peasant Movement in La Convencion -- The Failure of the Peasant Movement in La Convencion -- Trotskyism, Dual Power and 'Dual Power' -- Hugo Blanco, the Agrarian Myth and Capitalism -- Hugo Blanco, Populism and Peasant Essentialism -- ANUC and Populism in Colombia -- Sendero Luminoso, Maoism and the Agrarian Myth -- Socialism, Populism and Nationalism: Tribal and Farmers' Movements in India -- Socialism and Peasant Movements in the Pre-Independence Era -- Class Struggle from Above, or the Weapons of the Strong -- Class Struggle from Below, or the Weakness of the Weapons -- Naxalism and Tribal Movements in West Bengal.
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Developing countries Peasants Peasants--Political activity Agricultural laborers Agricultural laborers--Political activity