Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Beginning at the End
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Communists, Coal Miners, and Chilean Democracy
Part I Hopes and Promises
1. From Soldiers of Revolution to Citizen Workers
2. Challenging Exclusion: The Birth of the Popular Front in the Coal Region
3. From Tremors to Quakes: The Popular Front Wins the Presidency in 1938
Part II Collaboration and Conflict
4. Workers Contend with the Companies and the Popular Front Government, 1940–1942
5. “With a Bullet in His Heart and the Chilean Flag in His Hand”: Police Shootings in Lota, October 1942
6. “Soldiers of Democracy”: Collaboration and Conflict During World War II
7. General Strikes and States of Siege: Polarization in the Postwar Transition
Part III Rupture and Betrayal
8. “The People Call You Gabriel”: Communist-Backed González Videla Reaches the Presidential Palace
9. The Great Betrayal: González Videla and the Coal Miners’ Strike of October 1947
10. Democracy Under Siege: González Videla’s “Damned Law,” Internment Camps, and Mass Deportations
Conclusion: Coalition Politics in the History of Chilean Democracy
Bibliography
Index