The Fall of the Great Republic (1886-88)

A political narrative recounts how prolonged economic hardship, vacillating economic policy, partisan opportunism, and the influx of radical exiles combine with growing socialist and anarchist sentiment to overthrow republican institutions. The author outlines a sequence of social discontent, political misrule, violent outbreaks, mass unrest, and revolutionary organization that lead to city uprisings, foreign intervention, a war with a European power, and eventual occupation. Chapters analyze moral decline, the appeal of collectivist doctrines, the role of immigrant factions, failed rescue attempts, and a grim appendix surveying revolutionary propaganda and violent tactics, all offered as an explanation for the systemic collapse.