Beyond the Vanguard Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende&39s Chile [Hardcover]

For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende’s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking bookBeyond the Vanguard,Marian E. Schlotterbeck explores popular politics in Chile in the decade before Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and provides an in-depth account of how working-class people transformed the existing social order by embracing radical politics. Schlotterbeck eloquently examines the lost opportunities for creating a democratic revolution and the ways that the legacy of this period continues to resonate in Chile and beyond.

Learn more about the author and this book inan interviewpublished online with Jacobin.

Marian E. Schlotterbeck is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.

“Marian Schlotterbeck’s illuminating study of students, workers, shantytown dwellers, and leftist activists in Concepción recasts the legacy of Chile’s remarkable era of political experiment and revolution. Grassroots initiatives of participatory democracy created experiences beyond the vanguardism and sectarianism that weighed more heavily in Santiago—and in historical narratives of the Allende era.”—Steve J. Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author ofRemembering Pinochet’s Chile
 
"Beyond the Vanguardis an indispensable book. Readers will be convinced that Chile’s thousand-day experiment in radical democracy was one of the most important events in twentieth-century history. Schlotterbeck writes with rare eloquence and deepl3!