Allende's Chile: The Political Economy of the Rise and Fall of the Unidad Popular
By Stefan De Vylder
Cambridge University Press, 1976, 251 pp.
Noting that the Unidad Popular never came close to its goal of attaining power in society as a whole, and rejecting economic crisis as the cause of the anti-Allende coup, the author argues that by the time the military assumed power, the administration had already been politically and economically defeated on other battlegrounds.
