The Sandinista Revolution

"An authoritative, deeply documented account of a pivotal period in Nicaraguan history that also brilliantly illuminates major trends in inter-American and North-South relations.”—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs

“At last, we have a one-volume history of the Nicaraguan Revolution that is balanced, well researched, and authoritativeDue to Mateo Jarquín’s fine research, there is much for readers to contemplate about revolution and authoritarianism in this book.”—The Americas

“Jarquín has based his rendition of history on an impressive body of scholarship, and in an impartial tone of voice, and for that, he deserves high praise. It is an extraordinary story.”—Jon Lee Anderson, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America

“A sweeping diplomatic and political history of the Sandinista Revolution, it is essential reading for students and historians of Central America, Third World revolutions and the global Cold War.”—Journal of Latin American Studies

“A much-needed repositioning of the Sandinista Revolution on the global stage, exploring how Nicaraguan and international actors carefully weighed the potential and the risk of their political positions as they navigated a quickly changing international geopolitical context in the late Cold War era. . . . [T]he book makes a convincing case for the centrality of Latin Americans and their visions for the future to the development of late Cold War international politics.”—Diplomatic History

“Jarquín takes a balanced and nuanced approach. . . . Refreshingly, he sees the Sandinista Revolution outside the narrow prism of US foreign policy debates. VERDICT: A meticulous political history of the Sandinistas during the long 1980s.”—Library Journal

“The Sandinista Revolution makes the case for diplomatic history brilliantly . . . Jarquín’s contribution to the broader project of understanding Latin America’s last great revolution is . . . impressive.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“Transnational history at its best . . . [Jarquín] chart[s], in commendably accessible prose, the vicissitudes of the Nicaraguan Revolution in the global context within which it needs to be properly viewed. . . . [The book} offer[s] important, nuanced insights into the nature of Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy, and into how it interacted with US allies in Latin America and western Europe.”—International Affairs

“Las fuentes consultadas son verdaderamente monumentales.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

Translation: “The sources consulted are truly monumental.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“The Sandinista Revolution convincingly shift[s] attention to the myriad efforts undertaken by state and non-state actors to bring peace to Nicaragua in the decade following the ouster of Somoza.. . . Exhaustively researched.”—Cold War History