Allende and Popular Unity: The Road to Democratic Socialism

This book is a fascinating collection of texts from Chile’s ’1,000 Days of Revolution’. Twenty-three texts embodying the activity of Unidad Popular and Salvador Allende’s government in the early 1970s are structured around five thematic sections which tell of the challenges for progressive political organizations and social movements today.

Paula Vidal Molina is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile. Her research interests include state politics and policy, public policy, and Chilean Marxism history.

Ximena U. Odekerken is a doctoral student at the National University of San Martin, Argentina. Her research interests include political history and the history of the Left in Chile.