Alan Knight
Popular Culture and the Revolutionary State in Mexico, 1910-1940
h e n dust battles bajio settled victorious constitutionalists found v7looselyin control mexicos national destiny confronted country bled civil war ravaged disease plagued economic problems reconstruction became watchword new regime espoused ostensibly radical means order achieve traditional ends namely achievement economic development political stability2 hence revolutionary regimes apparent ambivalence contradictory blend conservative revolutionary elements created headaches historians especially want segregate mexicans neatly revolutionary sheep conservative goats picture article suggest complex revolutionaries emulated porfirian old regime predecessors hence revisionist historiography shows fondness tocquevillean notions revolutionary continuity radically changed circumstances wake civil war ravaged country alsoand importantlyhad mobilized masses mobilization came new popular forces manifested social banditry guerrilla conventional armies sindicatos mutualist societies peasant leagues embryonic political parties right left popular mobilization also brought genuine shift popular mentality likely brought open popular attitudes revolu