Based on documents found principally in the Soviet archives recently opened to the public, "Stumbling Its Way through Mexico" is an invitation to rethink the history of Communism in Mexico and Latin America.

Daniela Spenser is a historian and researcher with CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), and is the author of The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s and coeditor of In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War, and editor of Espejos de la guerra fria.