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A new history of the interwar Latin American left recovers the rich debates over race and self-determination that shaped the region's anti-imperial politics—and still resonate today. A 2019 parade in Mexico City celebrating the Mexican Revolution. Image © Clicks de México via Shutterstock. In the early 1920s, the Latin American landscape was rocked by two political earthquakes. Though different in nature, the Mexican and Russian Revolutions shared much in common: domestically, both fought for th