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Contenido: "We lived those years with a lot of passion" : university reform and the rise of the movimiento de Izquierda revolucionaria -- "To create a more just society" : coal miners and textile workers in the revolutionary workers front -- "By our own means" : socialist utopia in building revolutionary shantytowns -- "Let the people speak!": popular democracy and the Concepción people's assemblies -- "Building their own power" : grassroots responses to the bosses' lockout -- "Living within a special world" : the unraveling revolution and the limits of the vanguard -- Epilogue : the meaning and memory of radical politics in the 21st century.

Resumen: For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allendes attempt to democratially bring about a socialist regime, new unterstandings of the meaning of revolucionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the Vanguard, Marian E. Schlotterbeck explores popular politics in Chile in the decade before Augusto Pinochets 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.