Taking the high ground - Shining Path and the Andes, Michael L. Smith; the origins and logic of Shining Path - return to the past, Carlos Ivan Degregort, the centre's multiple failures, Ton de Wit and Vera Gianotten; Shining Path and peasant responses in rural Ayacucho, Billie Jean Isbell; Shining Path and peasant responses in Andahuaylas, Ronald H. Berg; guerillas and coca in the upper Huallaga Valley, Jose E. Gonzales; Shining Path's urban strategy - Ate Vitarte, Michael L. Smith; Shining Path's Stalin and Trotsky - Abimael Guzman and Luis Kawata, Gustavo Gorriti; the organization of Shining Path, Gabriela Tarazona-Sevillano.