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Distilled Conclusions: The Disappearance of the Agrarian Question in El Salvador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Martin Diskin
Martin Diskin*
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A recurring theme in the study of social stability is the relation of rural conditions to political violence and revolution as well as to subtler and less violent forms of opposition and resistance. El Salvador has served as an example for study because of its recent twelve-year civil war and the participation of its rural population. Given the depth and richness of data concerning rural conditions leading up to the civil war, it is somewhat baffling to find that rural social tensions are explained away in the terms used by Mitchell Seligson in “Thirty Years of Agrarian Transformation in El Salvador.”

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Commentary and Debate
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 111 - 126
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Copyright © 1996 by the University of Texas Press

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I gratefully acknowledge the critiques offered by David Krusé, Jonathan Fox, and Jack Spence. I am solely responsible for the final product.

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