In 1952 Bolivia was transformed by revolution. With the army destroyed from only a few days of fighting, workers and peasants took up arms to claim the country as their own. Overnight, the electorate expanded five-fold. Industries were turned over to worker organizations to manage, and land was distributed to peasant communities. Education became universal and free for the first time in the country's history.

This volume, the result of a conference organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University and the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of London, presents new interpretations of the causes of the events of 1952 and compares them to the great social transformations that occurred in France, Mexico, Russia, China, and Cuba. It also considers the consequences of the revolution by examining the political, social, and economic development of the country, as well as adding important insights to the analysis of revolution and the understanding of this fascinating Andean country.

Proclaiming Revolution:
Bolivia in Comparative 
Perspective 
Edited by 
Merilee Grindle
and
Pilar Domingo
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Tables and Figures
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1	1952 and All That: The Bolivian Revolution in Comparative 
Perspective
				Merilee S. Grindle
How Revolutionary the Revolution?
Chapter 2		The Bolivian National Revolution: A Comparison
				Laurence Whitehead
Chapter 3	The Domestic Dynamics of the Mexican and Bolivian 
Revolutions
				Alan Knight
Chapter 4	Braked but not Broken: The United States and 
Revolutionaries in Mexico and Bolivia
				Ken Lehman
Revolutionary Visions and Actors
Chapter 5	Revolutionary Memory in Bolivia: Anticolonial and National 
Projects from 1781 to 1952
				Sinclair Thomson
Chapter 6	The Origins of the Bolivian Revolution in the Twentieth 
Century: Some Reflections
				James Dunkerley
Chapter 7		Revisiting the Rural Roots of the Revolution 
				Laura Gotkowitz
Chapter 8	Capturing Indian Bodies, Hearths, and Minds: 'El hogar 
campesino' and Rural School Reform in Bolivia, 1920s-
1940s
				Brooke Larson
Revolutionary Consequences
Chapter 9		The National Revolution and its Legacy
				Juan Antonio Morales
Chapter 10	Social Change in Bolivia since 1952
				Herbert S. Klein
Chapter 11	A Comparative Perspective on Education Reforms in 
Bolivia: 1950-2000
				Manuel Contreras
Unfinished Agendas and New Initiatives
Chapter 12	Political Parties Since 1964: The Construction of Bolivia's 
Multiparty System
				Eduardo Gamarra
Chapter 13	Shadowing the Past? Policy Reform in Bolivia, 1985-2002
				Merilee S. Grindle
Chapter 14	The Offspring of 1952: Poverty, Exclusion and the Promise 
of Popular Participation
George Gray Molina
Conclusion 
Chapter 15	Revolution and the Unfinished Business of Nation- and 
State-Building
Pilar Domingo
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Bolivia History Revolution, 1952, Bolivia History 1938-1982, Bolivia History 1982-Revolutions Latin America History 20th century, Social change Bolivia History 20th century, Political participation History 20th century