Latin American Communisms

• Date: 01 November 2020
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X19859367
• Published date: 01 November 2020
• Author: Marc Becker
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

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Latin American Communisms

by

Marc Becker

Patricio Herrera González (ed.) El comunismo en América Latina: Experiencias militantes,

intelectuales y transnacionales (1917–1955). Valparaíso: Universidad de Valparaíso, 2017.

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X19859367

The opening of the Comintern archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union trig-

gered an avalanche of new studies on the twentieth-century left, and we are still reaping

the benefits of those investigations. The historian Patricio Herrera González contributes

to the research that access to new sources has made possible in his edited volume on

communism in Latin America. This book presents papers delivered at a conference in

Santiago de Chile in August 2015. Herrera is at the Universidad de Valparaíso, and as a

Marc Becker is a professor of Latin American history at Truman State University and a participat-

ing editor of Latin American Perspectives.