Communists, Commissars, and Consumers: The Politics of Food on the Chilean Road to Socialism.
This article examines the politics of food during Chile's Popular Unity (UP) revolution (1970--73). Organized around the rise and fall of the Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios (Price and Supply Committees, JAPs), a state-backed network of collectively managed stores and ad hoc food distribution sit...
| Published in: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 98; no. 3; pp. 471 - 502 |
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Duke University Press
Aug2018
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