The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara by Ernesto Che GuevaraReview by: Kenneth MaxwellForeign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), p. 229Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20048244 .

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Significant Books

Dependency and Development in Latin

America, by fernando Henrique

CARDOSO AND ENZO FALETTO.

Berkeley: University of California

Press, 1979,118 pp. This expanded and revised edition of

the classic work on dependency in Latin

America had an enormous influence on a

generation of American scholars, as it

had in the preceding decade influenced

many Latin American intellectuals. De

pendency theory came to form a virtually monolithic interpretive framework. The

book was originally written during the

mid-1960s in Chile, where Cardoso, now

president of Brazil, was living in exile,

and was first published in Mexico in 1971. In an attempt to bring historical and so

ciological substance to what Cardoso

and Faletto, a Chilean scholar, saw as the

overly economistic interpretation espoused

by the U.N. Economic Commission for

Latin America, Cardoso and Faletto

sought a return to political economy as

opposed to pure economics and looked at

the role of social classes, the state, and

corporatist and bureaucratic structures as

well as the key role of multinational cor

porations in setting the constraints within

which Latin American development took

place. Curiously, it is less in the original text than in their postscript to the English translation where Cardoso and Faletto's

more overtly socialist arguments appear most dated.

The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara, by Ernesto che

Guevara. NewYork: Pathfinder,

1994,467 pp. The republication of Che Guevara's

Bolivian Diary together with accounts by other veterans of his failed insurgency in

the high Andes is intended, its editor

Mary-Alice Waters writes, "to bring to

life for a new generation of revolutionary minded fighters worldwide this work by one of the great communist leaders of our

time." The diary was found in Guevara's

knapsack by the Bolivian military after

his capture and murder in 1967. It was

first published in the United States in

1968 in a special edition o? Ramparts

magazine, instantly becoming a

required

component of the radical student's cate

chism. Che's diary remains a fascinating

read, dispirited and hopeful at the same

time, and abruptly terminated. Guevara

believed he was "opening the final stage of the liberation of the Americas." In this

he was resoundingly mistaken, but his

death and the recent unearthing of his

remains in Bolivia have created a mythol

ogy that will likely long survive the end of the Cuban revolution he has also

helped to romanticize.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

ROBERT LEGVOLD

How Russia Is Ruled, revised edition, by

merle FAiNSOD. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963,

684 pp. Choosing a few books from the thousands

produced over seven and a half decades is

not easy, with one exception: Merle

Fainsod's preeminent study of Soviet

politics. For three decades after its 1953

publication and as revised ten years later, this book defined the field of Soviet studies. Over the years a host of texts

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