Category: Blood and Tears
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Winter Lines (1986): Two Hands for Reform, Two Hands for Control
In the winter of 1986, students filled the streets with calls for fair elections and dignity, while inside Zhongnanhai, the elders and reformers wrestled over how far — and how fast — China could change…
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Prologue – When the Elders Would Not Let Go
In 1983, China’s future lay locked in the hands of its revolutionary elders — until a plague loosened their grip and left the door to change just slightly ajar…
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The Children of the Torn Continent: Latin America’s Search for Wholeness in the 21st Century
Because in the end, memory is not the past.
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The Latin American Right (1942–2000): Between Sword and Sermon
In the end, the Right didn’t win—it outlasted.
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The Impact of Leftist Wars on Latin American Literature (1942–1980s): From Revolutionary Dreams to Disillusionment
By the 2000s, Latin American literature no longer “belonged” to the left—it had become a voice of resistance against all forms of oppression.
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The Cost of Decades of Leftist Wars in Latin America (1942–1980s): Socioeconomic Collapse and Human Toll
By 2000, Latin America was a region haunted by the ghost of socialism—a continent where revolution had promised utopia, but only delivered bloodshed.
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The Death and Rebirth of the Left: 1980–2000
By the year 2000, the global left was unrecognizable from its Cold War past.
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The Red Civil Wars: How Leftists Killed Each Other More Than They Fought Capitalism (1965–1980)
By the mid-to-late 20th century, the global leftist movement had fractured into multiple competing factions, each claiming to be the “true” path to communism. Trotskyists, Stalinists, and Maoists fought each other more viciously than they fought capitalism, with ideological purity tests turning into bloody purges, guerrilla wars, and assassinations.
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The Shadow of Trotsky: Latin America and the Leftist World (1965–1980)
By the mid-1960s, Latin America had become the primary Cold War battleground for socialist revolution.
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The Ghost of Trotsky: Mexico and the Struggle for Latin America (1950–1965)
By 1965, Mexico was still reeling from its communist past, while Trotsky’s name became a symbol of defiance across the world. The battle between revolutionary socialism and American imperialism was far from over.
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