InstitutionClaim Cited
Shining Path (PCP-SL)
The Communist Party of Peru–Shining Path built a leader-centered insurgency that treated communities as material for a totalizing project, using indoctrination, clandestine cells, assassinations, massacres, forced recruitment, and fear until popular resistance and police intelligence broke its central command.
How did a small ideological party make its leader's theory govern distant communities, and why did the coercive organization collapse when those communities and its own information networks turned against it?