Considers causes of violence in Latin America, asking in what ways political violence is related to modernity and to international and regional fields of power, how important ideology and social relations are as determinants of political violence, and whe

Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War / Greg Grandin 1Part One: The First Cold Warviolence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz 45Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott 62On the Road to "El Porvenir": A Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey R. Gould 88Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller Klubock 121Part Two: The Cuban ConjunctureThe Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase 163Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009 / Lillian Guerra 199Part Three: The Weight of the NightThe Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn 239A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister 276"People's War," "Dirty War": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo Rénique 309The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín Miracle, Colombia / Forrest Hylton 338ReflectionsYou Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin 371Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil Larsen 381ConclusionsLatin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph 397History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg Grandin 415Contributors 423Index 427