Concrete Inferno
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A01=C. William Vardy
Author_C. William Vardy
Brazil
Brazil 1964-1985
Brazil Military Regime
Brazilian Communist movement
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Cold War
coup
dictatorship
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insurgency
intervention
Latin America
revolution
South America
terrorism studies
torture
Product details
- ISBN 9781538178843
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 158 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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After a coup in 1964 that ousted Brazil’s leftist President João Goulart from power, a brutal military dictatorship took the reins of the state. As a result, elements of the persecuted Brazilian Communist Party split from a more peaceful, orthodox line and declared their intent to wage an insurgent war against the government, plunging the country into a conflagration of violence marked by cycles of urban bombings, political assassinations, institutional torture, kidnappings, and summary executions. Concrete Inferno relays this period in Brazil in a lucid narrative history, exploring what drove the military coup of 1964, the subsequent rise of the Armed Left, and the successes and failures of the insurgency and how it concluded. Stretching from the rumblings of discontent during João Goulart’s ascendancy in 1961 to the strange conclusion of the dictatorship in 1985, the book draws on new primary sources and a wealth of English- and Portuguese-language resources to provide a complete and evenhanded portrait of the conflict.
C. WILLIAM VARDY is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a scholar of terrorism and irregular conflict, focusing primarily on the Portuguese-speaking world. He is a former resident of Brazil and worked previously with the US Department of State in São Paulo and the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute in Washington, DC.
