In Bolivia, uniquely in the Western Hemisphere, Trotskyims acquired significant and enduring influence in the labor movement as well as sectors of the peasantry. The dissident Communist current identified with the views of the exiled Soviet revolutionary generated themes and slogans that fied into the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, one of the deepest-going national upheavals in modern Latin American history. The influence of Bolivian Trotskyims continued to be felt at subsequent turning points in the life of this predominantly indian and peasant Andean country^ien