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Documenting the Peruvian insurrection

Location: Microfilm Room - F3448.2 .D638 2005

Scope

This collection includes party documents and ephemera from the 1960s, 1970s,and 1980s, which cast a bright light on the theoretical, political, and psychological genesis of the Shining Path’s descent into an apocalyptic and bloody rural campaign for power. This political material is complemented by a large assemblage of government counterinsurgency strategy discussions and surveillance reports, as well as documentation of specific events of the war.

How to search the collection

Guides

Printed Guide is located with the microfilm

For more information about this subject in our Library Catalog, check out these
Subject Categories:

Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)

Insurgency -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.

Peru -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.

Peru -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources.


Time Period: 20th Century  

Subject keywords: Latin American History