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AbstractWith the collapse of the Soviet Union, restrictions on archives in Russia have diminished markedly. Some of the repositories have potential interest for Latin Americanists, including the Comintern Archive. This research note discusses the objectives of the archive and the types of material it contains. A list of the major collections relevant to Latin America is followed by comments on how to use the archive and websites that will facilitate research in Russia. Also provided are bibliographic references to academic studies on Latin America based on Comintern materials.

This study challenges the widely held belief that

the peasant rebellion

of 1932, and the massive military response to it, marked

the demise of Indian

ethnic identity. Working from documents that have become

available only

recently, we demonstrate that the Indian population was

not decimated by the

military repression. The percentage of Indians in the

population remained steady

and in some regions even increased. We show that the

bedrock of Indian identity,

the cofradías and the communities,

survived the repression as well. We propose

that these survivals are due, ironically, in part to the

military. Despite their

willingness to employ violence on a colossal level,

military leaders believed that

order in the countryside was to be achieved through

reform as well as repression.

The military's reformist ideology and reform

programme worked to defend

individual Indians and Indian communities from ladinos

anxious to avenge their losses in the uprising.

A fight within the right : rivaling visions of modernization -- Modernizing reform and anticommunist repression : the first PCN administration, 1961-1967 -- "A monitor instead of a teacher" : the origins of the 1968 education reform and how television became its centerpiece -- "A feverish laboratory" : the education reform of 1968 -- Modernization projects and authoritarian practices in the 1970s -- "The most thoroughly studied educational technology project in the world

"Anna Maria Gasteazoro (1950-1993) was a Salvadoran opposition leader and renowned prisoner of conscience. In her memoirs, Tell Mother I'm in Paradise, she recounts her trajectory from a privileged Catholic upbringing in El Salvador, with stints at school abroad and early jobs, to her increasing commitment to political work after witnessing the violence and corpses in the streets of San Salvador early in the civil war, to clandestine organizing against the brutal military junta. Her inspiring and, at times, dramatic story culminates in three years as a political prisoner of conscience and then release and exile to Mexico. Readers get a sense of the upper-class milieu of well-connected parents and loving nannies and of Gasteazoro negotiating her education and freedom and exploring her talents in early years. She chronicles her growing rebellion against strictures of the Catholic Church and the conservative group Opus Dei, with which her mother was heavily involved. She was well educated and spoke perfect English and discovered a talent for organizing in administrative jobs abroad and at home. As the war progressed, she quickly became a valuable leader in the opposition movement as a member of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR), a social democratic party, despite the machismo environment. She was often sent abroad as a representative. In two particularly exciting events, she served as a delegate to the Eleventh International Youth Festival in Havana in 1978 and when, with her life in danger, she donned a disguise to give a speech at a conference in Spain. As other MNR leaders were killed or disappeared, she rose to top leadership. Against the backdrop of kidnappings and disappearances of prominent members of the opposition and massive social oppression, Gasteazoro began to live a double life. As an operative in a faction of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), she organized safe houses for fellow activists and proved adept at creative content, handling whatever task was required, for example, writing for an underground radio station and producing what became an award-winning documentary film. In 1981, the notorious National Guard arrested and tortured her, and she was then sent to the women's prison at Illopango. There, she and other activists dedicated their days to organizing through the Committee of Salvadoran Political Prisoners (COPPES). Gasteazoro's love affairs, including with fellow operatives, are woven into the narrative. Accounts of the relationships help reveal her as extraordinary woman in extraordinary times who lived to the fullest in both body and spirit"--