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| history of the cuban revolution: Inside the Cuban Revolution Julia Sweig, 2009-06-30 Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuban Revolution in America Teishan A. Latner, 2018-01-11 Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the Vietnam War, and Black Power, socialist Cuba claimed center stage for a generation of Americans who looked to the insurgent Third World for inspiration and political theory. As Americans studied the island's achievements in education, health care, and economic redistribution, Cubans in turn looked to U.S. leftists as collaborators in the global battle against inequality and allies in the nation's Cold War struggle with Washington. By forging ties with organizations such as the Venceremos Brigade, the Black Panther Party, and the Cuban American students of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, and by providing political asylum to activists such as Assata Shakur, Cuba became a durable global influence on the U.S. Left. Drawing from extensive archival and oral history research and declassified FBI and CIA documents, this is the first multidecade examination of the encounter between the Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Left after 1959. By analyzing Cuba's multifaceted impact on American radicalism, Latner contributes to a growing body of scholarship that has globalized the study of U.S. social justice movements. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered Samuel Farber, 2007-09-06 Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan. Exploring how historical conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Revolutionary Cuba Luis Martínez-Fernández, 2014 Beginning with Batista's coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and concluding with present-day transformations initiated under Raúl Castro, Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced analytical synthesis of all the major topics of contemporary Cuban history-- |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuban Revolution Reader Julio García Luis, 2001 Part of a series of books to be published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this anthology is based upon primary source material and documents the key moments of the revolution and its impact outwith Cuba. |
| history of the cuban revolution: A History of the Cuban Revolution Aviva Chomsky, 2010-11-23 A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later. Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impact Provides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary people Features both U.S. and Cuban perspectives to provide a complete and well-rounded look at the revolution and its repercussions Encourages students to understand history through the viewpoint of individuals living it Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America Dirk Kruijt, 2017-01-01 The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare. Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America is the first oral history of Cuba’s liberation struggle. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, Dirk Kruijt looks at the role of both veterans and the post-Revolution fidelista generation in shaping Cuba and the Americas. Featuring the testimonies of over sixty Cuban officials and former combatants, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America offers unique insight into a nation which, in spite of its small size and notional pariah status, remains one of the most influential countries in the Americas. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Ada Ferrer, 2021-09-07 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The United States and Cuba Jules Robert Benjamin, 1977-11-15 From its independence from Spain in 1898 until the 1960s, Cuba was dominated by the political and economic presence of the United States. Benjamin studies this unequal relationship through 1934, by examining U.S. trade, investment, and capital lending; Cuban institutions and social movements; and U.S. foreign policy. Benjamin convincingly argues that U.S. hegemony shaped Cuban internal politics by exploiting the island's economy, dividing the nationalist movement, co-opting Cuban moderates, and robbing post-1933 leadership of its legitimacy. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Cuban Revolution Marifeli Pérez-Stable, 1999 Now in its second edition, The Cuban Revolution has been updated to include an entirely new chapter on the changes affecting Cuba's policies and economy since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the failure of communism in general.--BOOK JACKET. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba 1952-1959 Manuel Márquez-Sterling, 2009 Author Manuel Márquez-Sterling writes about Fidel Castro and his revolution from direct personal experience, as a historian with broad and deep knowledge of 50s Cuba. The author knew and had contact with many of the historical figures in the book's pages. His penetrating analysis of the public and behind-the-scenes events clears the fog and shatters myths to reveal the real story of the Cuban Revolution. The book explains how Castro came to power through the convergence of rabid partisanship, radical student politics, media bias, and venal politicians who placed self interest ahead of preserving democracy. Facing a constitutional crisis, these parties espoused the end justifies the means, embracing political gangsterism and eschewing negotiations with political opponents- resulting in a power vacuum Castro exploited to seize power. Masterful propaganda cast Castro as pro-democracy hero, avoiding scrutiny of his plans for a totalitarian state under his control. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Youth and the Cuban Revolution Anne Luke, 2018-10-15 Youth and the Cuban Revolution: Youth Culture and Politics in 1960s Cuba is a new history of the first decade of the Cuban Revolution, exploring how youth came to play such an important role in the 1960s on this Caribbean island. Certainly, youth culture and politics worldwide were in the ascendant in that decade, but in this pioneering and thought-provoking work Anne Luke explains how the unique circumstances of the newly developing socialist revolution in Cuba created an ethos of youth which becomes one of the factors that explains how and why the Cuban Revolution survives to this day. By examining how youth was constructed and constituted within revolutionary discourse, policy, and the lived experience of young Cubans in the 1960s, Luke examines the conflicted (but ultimately successful) development of a revolutionary youth culture. She explores the fault lines along which the notion of youth was created—between the internal and the external, between discourse and the everyday, between politics and culture. Luke looks at how in the first decade of the Cuban Revolution a young leadership—Fidel, Raúl and Che—were complemented by a group of new protagonists from Cuba’s young generation. These could be literacy teachers, party members, militia members, teachers, singers, poets… all aiming to define and shape the Cuban Revolution. Together young Cubans took part in defining what it meant to be young, socialist and Cuban in this effervescent decade. The picture that emerges is one in which neither youth politics nor youth culture can alone help to explain the first decade of the Revolution; rather through the sometimes conflicted intersection of both there emerged a generation constantly to be renewed—a youth in Revolution. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution Jules R. Benjamin, 2020-06-30 Jules Benjamin argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and the United States stem from a long history of U.S. hegemony and Cuban resistance. He shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of U.S. efforts first to make it part of an empire of liberty and later to dominate it by economic methods, and he analyzes the kind of misreading of ardent nationalism that continues to plague U.S. policymaking. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba Libre! Tony Perrottet, 2019-01-22 The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it successfully overthrew the island nation’s US–backed dictator; and it quickly went awry under Fidel’s rule. But less is remembered about the amateur nature of the movement or the lives of its players. In this wildly entertaining and meticulously researched account, historian and journalist Tony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries—many of them kids just out of college, literature majors, and art students, and including a number of extraordinary women—who defeated 40,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details: How did Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sánchez whip the male guerrillas into shape? Who were the two dozen American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels? How do you make land mines from condensed milk cans—or, for that matter, cook chorizo à la guerrilla (sausage guerrilla-style)? Cuba Libre! is an absorbing look back at a liberation movement that captured the world's imagination with its spectacular drama, foolhardy bravery, tragedy, and, sometimes, high comedy—and that set the stage for Cold War tensions that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959 Samuel Farber, 2011-12-13 “Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba’s economic and social performance.” —Foreign Affairs Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the Revolution’s impact and legacy. “The Cuban story twists and turns as we speak, so thank goodness for scholars such as Samuel Farber, an unapologetic Marxist whose knowledge of Cuban affairs is unrivalled . . . In this excellent, necessary book, Farber takes stock of fifty years of revolutionary control by recognizing achievements but lambasting authoritarianism.” —Latin American Review of Books “A courageous and formidable balance-sheet of the Cuban Revolution, including a sobering analysis of a draconian ‘reform’ program that will only deepen the gulf between revolutionary slogans and the actual life of the people.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba’s Revolutionary World Jonathan C. Brown, 2017-04-24 On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba’s Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth century’s most transformative events. Initially, Castro’s revolution augured well for democratic reform movements gaining traction in Latin America. But what had begun promisingly veered off course as Castro took a heavy hand in efforts to centralize Cuba’s economy and stamp out private enterprise. Embracing the Soviet Union as an ally, Castro and his lieutenant Che Guevara sought to export the socialist revolution abroad through armed insurrection. Castro’s provocations inspired intense opposition. Cuban anticommunists who had fled to Miami found a patron in the CIA, which actively supported their efforts to topple Castro’s regime. The unrest fomented by Cuban-trained leftist guerrillas lent support to Latin America’s military castes, who promised to restore stability. Brazil was the first to succumb to a coup in 1964; a decade later, military juntas governed most Latin American states. Thus did a revolution that had seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America bring about its tragic opposite. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Visions of Power in Cuba Lillian Guerra, 2012 In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Gue |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Cuban Revolution and the United States Jane Franklin, 1992-01 |
| history of the cuban revolution: Our History is Still Being Written Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, Moisés Sío Wong, 2005 A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong-three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry-threw themselves into the great proletarian battle that defined their generation. They became combatants in the clandestine struggle and 1956-58 revolutionary war that brought down a U.S.-backed dictatorship and opened the door to the socialist revolution in the Americas. Each became a general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Here they talk about the historic place of Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela). |
| history of the cuban revolution: State and Revolution in Cuba Robert W. Whitney, 2001 Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuban Memory Wars Michael J. Bustamante, 2021-02-10 For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story. Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative. |
| history of the cuban revolution: A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba Antoni Kapcia, 2020-12-24 Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance (danzón to mambo) and perhaps above all for its bold experiment of a socialist revolution in action. Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the 'essence' of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a maverick phenomenon tied not so much to socialism or Communism for their own sakes but instead to an idealistic vision of postcolonial nationalism. Reassessing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the author examines the central personalities: not just the famous trio of Che Guevara, Fidel and Raúl Castro in shaping the ideas of the revolution but, still further back, the visionary ideology of José Martí. Kapcia's book reflects on the future of the revolution as aúl nd his government began to cede power to a new generation. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Structure of Cuban History Louis A. Pérez Jr., 2013-09-16 In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba Richard Gott, 2005-01-01 A thorough examination of the history of the controversial island country looks at little-known aspects of its past, from its pre-Columbian origins to the fate of its native peoples, complete with up-to-date information on Cuba's place in a post-Soviet world. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba in Revolution Miguel A. Faria, 2002 |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution Anna Clayfield, 2019 This book examines the way in which the guerrilla origins of the Cuban Revolution have shaped the beliefs and values that have underpinned it since 1959.The book proposes that it is this guerrilla discourse which holds the key to understanding not only the survival of the Revolution itself, but the longevity of its leadership. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Dancing with the Revolution Elizabeth B. Schwall, 2021-04-06 Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cuban dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases. As esteemed artists, Cuban dancers exercised considerable power and influence. They often used their art to posit more radical notions of social justice than political leaders were able or willing to implement. After 1959, while generally promoting revolutionary projects like mass education and internationalist solidarity, they also took risks by challenging racial prejudice, gender norms, and censorship, all of which could affect dancers personally. On a broader level, Schwall shows that dance, too often overlooked in histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, provides fresh perspectives on what it means for people, and nations, to move through the world. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Cuban Revolution Georges A Fauriol, Juan Carlos Weiss, Hugh Thomas Of Swynnerton, Hugh S Thomas, 2021-06-02 January 1984 marked the 25th anniversary of Fidel Castro's emergence to power. The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later is a product of the CSIS Cuba Project, a long-term effort to focus public as well as policymaker's attention on Cuba-related affairs. The lead author, Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, is the dean of political-historical studies on Cuba, and author of the encyclopedic Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom. A great deal of myth surrounds the evolution of Cuba since Castro's emergence to power over 25 years ago. Some of this myth is the product of official Cuban propaganda; some of it is also due to a generally misinformed American public. Sifting through available data to distinguish between fact and fiction, this book evaluates broadly the impact of Castro's regime on Cuba itself. Based on the findings of the CSIS Cuba Project, the book draws on the assessments of 18 top Cuban specialists on the political, economic, cuiturai, and social development of Cuba since 1959. In contrast to democracies such as Costa Rica, the equalization of society that has taken place under Castro's leadership has been accomplished by redistributing existing resources, not by creating new wealth. Moreover, the authors conclude that in politics, culture, and the economy, Cuba under Castro has become and remains rigid, stagnant, enormously militarized, and ideologically absolutist. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Castro and the Cuban Revolution Thomas M. Leonard, 1999-04-30 A guide to the Cuban revolution that analyzes Fidel Castro's efforts to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista, discusses the Cuban revolt, its causes, and consequences, and examines Castro's efforts to pursue an independent foreign policy. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Revolution within the Revolution Michelle Chase, 2015-11-30 A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history of women and gender politics in revolutionary Cuba. Restoring to history women's participation in the all-important urban insurrection, and resisting Fidel Castro's triumphant claim that women's emancipation was handed to them as a revolution within the revolution, Chase's work demonstrates that women's activism and leadership was critical at every stage of the revolutionary process. Tracing changes in political attitudes alongside evolving gender ideologies in the years leading up to the revolution, Chase describes how insurrectionists mobilized familiar gendered notions, such as masculine honor and maternal sacrifice, in ways that strengthened the coalition against Fulgencio Batista. But, after 1959, the mobilization of women and the societal transformations that brought more women and young people into the political process opened the revolutionary platform to increasingly urgent demands for women's rights. In many cases, Chase shows, the revolutionary government was simply formalizing popular initiatives already in motion on the ground thanks to women with a more radical vision of their rights. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Response to Revolution Richard E. Welch, 1985 Response to Revolution: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 |
| history of the cuban revolution: Insurgent Cuba Ada Ferrer, 2005-10-12 In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution Thomas C. Wright, 2001 Annotation Examines the three-decade impact of the Cuban Revolution, from a major watershed in Latin American history to a marginalized Cuba. |
| history of the cuban revolution: That Infernal Little Cuban Republic Lars Schoultz, 2011-02-01 Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its neighbor, the Cubans' historical insistence on their right to self-determination has been a constant thorn in the side of American administrations, influenced both U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy on a much larger stage, and resulted in a freeze in diplomatic relations of unprecedented longevity. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction Jack A. Goldstone, 2023 In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the color revolutions across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history-- |
| history of the cuban revolution: Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary Margaret Randall, 2015-09-02 Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history. |
| history of the cuban revolution: The Power of Race in Cuba Danielle Pilar Clealand, 2017 In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and the ideal of racial harmony to create a formidable ideology that is an integral part of Cubans' sense of identity and their perceptions of race and racism in their country. While the combination of socialism and a colorblind racial ideology is particular to Cuba, strategies that paint a picture of equality of opportunity and deflect the importance of race are not particular to the island's ideology and can be found throughout the world, and in the Americas, in particular. By promoting an anti-discrimination ethos, diminishing class differences at the onset of the revolution, and declaring the end of racism, Castro was able to unite belief in the revolution to belief in the erasure of racism. The ideology is bolstered by rhetoric that discourages racial affirmation. The second part of the book examines public opinion on race in Cuba, particularly among black Cubans. It examines how black Cubans have indeed embraced the dominant nationalist ideology that eschews racial affirmation, but also continue to create spaces for black consciousness that challenge this ideology. The Power of Race in Cuba gives a nuanced portrait of black identity in Cuba and through survey data, interviews with formal organizers, hip hop artists, draws from the many black spaces, both formal and informal to highlight what black consciousness looks like in Cuba. |
| history of the cuban revolution: One Day in December Nancy Stout, 2013-04-01 Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement and went on to choose the landing site of the Granma and fight with the rebels in the Sierra Maestra. She collected the documents that would form the official archives of the revolution, and, after its victory, launched numerous projects that enriched the lives of many Cubans, from parks to literacy programs to helping develop the Cohiba cigar brand. All the while, she maintained a close relationship with Fidel Castro that lasted until her death in 1980. The product of ten years of original research, this biography draws on interviews with Sánchez’s friends, family, and comrades in the rebel army, along with countless letters and documents. Biographer Nancy Stout was initially barred from the official archives, but, in a remarkable twist, was granted access by Fidel Castro himself, impressed as he was with Stout’s project and aware that Sánchez deserved a worthy biography. This is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who exemplified the very best values of the Cuban Revolution: selfless dedication to the people, courage in the face of grave danger, and the desire to transform society. |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba and the U.S. Empire Jane Franklin, 2016-05 Sections of this book were previously published as Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History by Ocean Press (1997) |
| history of the cuban revolution: Cuba in Revolution Antoni Kapcia, 2008-11-15 The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point, which is what Antoni Kapcia provides with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Cuba In Revolution takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analyzing social change, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution, and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes into Castro’s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defense and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the United States from the beginning of his reign. The book also considers the evolution of the revolution’s international profile and Cuba’s foreign relations over the years, investigating issues and events such as the Bay of Pigs crisis, Cuban relations with Communist nations like Russia and China, and the flight of asylum-seeking Cubans to Florida over the decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 catalyzed a severe economic and political crisis in Cuba, but Cuba was surprisingly resilient in the face of the catastrophe, Kapcia notes, and he examines the strategies adopted by Cuba over the last two decades in order to survive America’s longstanding trade embargo. A fascinating and much-needed examination of a country that has served as an important political symbol and diplomatic enigma for the twentieth century, Cuba In Revolution is a critical primer for all those interested in Cuba’s past—or concerned with its future. |
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Castro and the Cuban revolution - JSTOR
Castro and the Cuban revolution CONTENTS: 1. - Foreword; 2. - Interpretations of the Cuban revolution; 3. - Castro, Communism and the United States; 4. - Castro and the betrayal of the …
‘The Cuban Question’ and the Cold War in Latin America, 1959-1
same extent as the Cuban Revolution.3 The 1962 Punta del Este meeting raises two important issues. First, the unanimity with which delegates regarded Cuba’s position in the Western …
Towards a History of Cuban Exiles in the United States
migration of the thirty years since Fidel Castro's successful revolution on the island. Taken together, they suggest the interconnectedness of Cuban and American history and the …
Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 - JSTOR
Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 ABSTRACT This essay provides a new perspective on the conflict that emerged between the United States and Cuba shortly after Fidel Castro seized power, as …
Grade 9 History Worksheet 2 The Cuban Revolution
Grade 9 History Worksheet 2 The Cuban Revolution 1. Explain why Jose Marti and Antonio Maceo are two of Cuba’s national heroes. ... Identify 3 reasons for Cuban discontent or …
An Historical Critique of the Emergence and Evolution of …
The Cuban Revolution caused shock waves that resonated throughout the hemisphere, qualifying 95 9 as the watershed date in the history of the armed Latin American left, or as Castafieda …
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: LESSONS FOR THE THIRD WORLD
the new Cuban constitution. This Amendment gave the U.S. the "right" to intervene in Cuba to protect its financial interests, and to set up military bases on Cuban soil (Guantanamo). Cuba …
4 Organising and using correct language - Pearson Schools and FE …
The Cuban Revolution had worsened US–Soviet relations. The next event which impacted relations was the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA trained Cuban exiles who tried to get rid of …
Cuban Education between Revolution and Reform - JSTOR
Danay Quintana Nedelcu, Cuban Education between Revolution and Reform, International Journal of Cuban Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 2014), pp. 205-221
The Absolution of History: Uses of the Past in Castro's Cuba
history',3 returned them to their owners where possible, and restored jobs to workers who had been sacked by order of the dictatorship. Thus, the revolu-tionary government took its …
Cuban Migration: A Postrevolution Exodus Ebbs and Flows
In 1959, the Cuban Revolution unleashed the largest refugee flow to the United States in history, with approximately 1.4 million people fleeing the island after the toppling of dictator Fulgencio …
Women’s Liberation During the 1953 Cuban Revolution
37 direction.”28 These women frequently contributed to the states national affairs, such as the Independence Wars and later in woman’s suffrage movements of the 1920s, in hopes that …
Revolution, Race, and Some Aspects Foreign Relations in Cuba
The Cuban Revolution in 1959 inherited a race problem that was some two centuries old. Although the revolutionary government's redistributive policies and its ending of public racism …
The Cuban Revolution - JSTOR
drama. The Cuban Revolution did for radical youth of the 1950s what the Bolsheviks did for their ancestors. You could play a role in history and see the results. And in the early stages they …
Spring 2017: Cuban Society and Revolution - University of …
and U.S. economic domination. As one of the “great” modern social upheavals, the Cuban Revolution impacted not just the history of Cuba, but the world as well. But evaluating this …
The Cuban revolution of 1959 – legitimating an ongoing …
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION OF 1959 3 tion of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty” (quoted after …
The Political and Economic Reverberations of the Cuban Revolution …
of the Cuban Revolution as a momentary phenomenon, one that mostly concerned foreign policy during the administration of Adolfo López Mateos (1958–64).3 Mexico was an exception within …
Year 11 Modern History Assessment Task 2 – Cuban Revolution
Year 11 Modern History Assessment Task 2 – Cuban Revolution Date: Friday 29th May 2015 Outcomes: P1.2, P2.1, P4.1, P4.2 Weighting: 15% Task: Research Essay Question: Evaluate …
An Introduction Cuban Revolutionaries and the Caribbean Basin
rst Cuban Revolution was then effectively hijacked by the United States in 1898. After three years of heavy ghting, the United States declared war on Spain and entered Cuba with a fair amount …
African Stalingrad: The Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, and …
The Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, and the End of Apartheid by Isaac Saney One of the most remarkable aspects of the Cuban Revolution continues to be the various internationalist …
Theorizing the Cuban Revolution - JSTOR
The deep currents of oppositional culture at work in the Cuban Revolution included a long history of rebellions, a tradition of nationalism, and the loose, radical amalgam ultimately fashioned by …
Women in the Cuban Revolution: Whereâ•Žs the Change?
Women in the Cuban Revolution: Where’s the Change? Introduction . The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a notable turning point in the country's history, with significant ramifications for …
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND THE I - JSTOR
THE "CUBAN REVOLUTION" AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 1948* WILLIAM S. STOKES** I ... Throughout its history, and particularly after it obtained power in 1944, the PRC …
IB History of the Americas Topic #14: Political Developments
during the 1960s and 19705. These regimes emerged as a direct response to the success of the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s threat to export revolution throughout the region. …
CHE GUEVARA AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION - Cambridge …
ican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo is sympathetic to the revolution butdoes not identify with Cuban Communism in the same way that Villegas and Waters do. Taibo's collaborators on the …
Survivor: Cuba: The Cuban Revolution at 50 - JSTOR
The Cuban Revolution at 50 by Luis E. Rumbaut and Rub?n Q* Rumbaut Cuba's history subsequent to Spanish colonization can be divided into 50 years of republican capitalist …
The Left in Transition: The Cuban Revolution in US Third World …
Cubans before the Cuban Revolution (Philadelphia, 1998), pp. 266–80. 6 I borrow the notion of the Third World as a ‘political project’ from Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People’s …
LEFt GoVERnMEntS in PoWER Cuba 60 years of revolution, 60 …
The Cuban revolution has proven to be a defining moment in history. The defence of the revolution by the Cuban people and their leadership with the support of international solidarity …
The “Cuban Question” and the Cold War in Latin America,1959
to the same extent as the Cuban revolution.3 The 1962 Punta del Este meeting raises two important issues. First, the unanimity with which delegates regarded Cuba’s position in the …
Cuban Voices: an oral history Interview with Elizabeth Dore by …
Cuban men and women and also from the not so good experiences that should not be repeated. This involves learning about the history of the Cuban Revolution. As a researcher, I am …
A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013
Five recently published books exemplify this consolidating “cultural revolution” in Cuban history, offering new insights into the distinct experiences, worldviews, and forms of expression …
Revolution and Its Aftermath in Cuba - JSTOR
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered. By Samuel Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 212. $19.95 ... sources, has been Piero Gleijeses's fine …
COURSE PLANNER NSW SYLLABUS MODERN HISTORY – Stage 6 …
B8: The Cuban Revolution • the historical context, including: – political, economic and social conditions in Cuba under President Batista – causes of the revolution in Cuba • the nature of …
The Impact of the Cuban Revolution: A Comparative Perspective
The Impact of the Cuban Revolution: A Comparative Perspective SUSAN ECKSTEIN Boston University Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since the revolution in Cuba. Yet there is …
The History of the Construction of the Cuban National Capitol
From the inauguration of the building, in 1929, until 1959, year of the Cuban revolution triumph, the Capitol was the Cuban Congress. Since 1959, the building has been used for various …
The Story of Benny “Kid” Paret: Cuban Boxers, the Cuban Revolution…
life history deserves special attention apart from this cohort of boxers from Cuba and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean for several reasons. First, following in the traditions of the …
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution of 1959 - Mr. Hurst's …
countries heightened including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Castro continued to rule but without their primary aid and …
The origins of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 - ResearchGate
4 To understand the advent of the Cuban revolution in 1959 and its relations with the United States, it is necessary to take a look at the history of the island from the beginning of the 19th ...
STUDIES OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION: ORIGINS IN MEXICO, BOLIVIA, …
berg's The Cuban Revolution and Latin America (1965) and Suarez' Cuba: Castroism and Communism J 1959-1966scheduled for publication in mid-1967. Comprehensive evaluation of …
José Martí and the Cuban Revolution - JSTOR
To write about the relationship between José Marti and the Cuban Revolution means to dwell on one of the central issues of contempo rary Cuban history. What has been Marti's impact on …
The United States and the Cuban Revolution of 1917 - JSTOR
1 Charles E. Chapman, A History of the Cuban Repu'blio (New York, 1927), p. 347. UNITED STATES AND CUBAN REVOLUTION 139 although it is alleged he had to resort to high …
On Celebrating the Cuban Revolution - JSTOR
The more proximate history of the Cuban Revolution can be broken into important periods. The first included the attack on the Moneada barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26,1953, the …
Spring 2018: Cuban Society and Revolution
upheavals, the Cuban Revolution impacted not just the history of Cuba, but the world as well. But evaluating this history has been the subject of rancorous debate for more than half a century. …
Revolution, the Intellectual and a Cuban Identity: The Long Tradition
For, although the Cuban Revolution can only be properly understood in the specific context of its time and place, to see the process exclusively in that light is to see a one- or. ... Cuban literary …
The Absolution of History: Uses of the Past in Castro's Cuba
centrality of 'History will absolve me' to the revolutionary struggle meant that history, rather than constitutionalism or ideology, was the key legitimating force behind the Cuban revolution. Like …
2 The Cuban Revolution and British-American Relations - Springer
British involvement in Cuba's history, and an acceptance of the pre-eminent American role in Cuban aff~lirs that characterised British policy in the nineteenth century and thereafter. This …
