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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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A Small Oasis in a Large Intellectual Desert: Debates over Rockefeller Foundation Funding to Revolutionary Bolivia

January 1, 2009

The Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 that brought the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Movement, MNR) to power attempted profound social, economic, and political transformations of Bolivian society. Most accounts of the revolution's impact stress nationalization of the mining industry, agrarian reform, and the implementation of universal suffrage as part of the MNR's project to modernize Bolivia economically and politically. My project builds on the insights of these analyses and examines the cultural impacts of the MNR's modernization campaign on the nation's sizable indigenous population. It provides a unique interpretation of the Bolivian Revolution by using government-sponsored rural public health campaigns as a lens for analyzing the racial, class, and gendered interactions of the indigenous population with the revolutionary state.

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