Beyond the Vanguard

For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende&rsquo;s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book <I>Beyond the Vanguard,</I> Marian E. Schlotterbeck explores popular politics in Chile in the decade before Augusto Pinochet&rsquo;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.<BR /><BR /> Learn more about the author and this book in <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/09/chilean-left-salvador-allende-coup-mir">an interview</a> published online with&#160;<I>Jacobin</I>.