Cuba 1952 1959

Author : Manuel Márquez-Sterling
Publisher : Kleiopatria Digital Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 9780615318561

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Cuba 1952-1959 by Manuel Márquez-Sterling Pdf

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.

Author : Ramon L. Bonachea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351524704

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Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959 by Ramon L. Bonachea Pdf

The Cuban Insurrection is an in-depth study of the first stage of the Cuban Revolution, the years from 1952 to 1959. The volume depicts the origins of the conflict, details the middle years, and ends with Fidel Castro's victorious arrival In Havana on January 8, 1959. Based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished original material, including confidential military reports, letters from various leaders of the insurrection and data gathered from interviews held In Cuba and abroad, the book Is a descriptive historical analysis of the struggle against military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The authors challenge the traditional premise that Cuba's insurrection began in the rural areas and only later expanded into urban areas. Instead they argue that the insurrectionary struggle was based upon combined urban-rural guerrilla warfare against the regular army. Basically, The Cuban Insurrection treats two major movements involved in the struggle—The Directorio Revolucionario and the M-26-7—and examines the growth, ideology, conflicts, and military strategies of their respective rural and urban organizations. The book includes a detailed analysis of combat, strikes, uprisings, and expeditions. Original maps and charts illustrate battles, maneuvers, and guerrilla political structures.

Author : Gladys Marel García,Gladys Marel García-Pérez
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1555876110

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Insurrection & Revolution by Gladys Marel García,Gladys Marel García-Pérez Pdf

Based on previously unused primary sources, this book examines the social forces that were released and shaped by the Cuban revolutionary war. It illustrates the development of resistance methods and varieties of rebellion, and shows how individual groups became a single revolutionary movement.

Author : Gladys Marel García-Pérez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:912989577

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Insurrection and Revolution by Gladys Marel García-Pérez Pdf

Author : Michelle Chase
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625010

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Revolution within the Revolution by Michelle Chase Pdf

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.

Author : Ramón L. Bonachea,Marta San Marta-N
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0878555765

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The Cuban Insurrection, 1952-1959 by Ramón L. Bonachea,Marta San Marta-N Pdf

Contains primary source material.

Author : Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030463632

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Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War by Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano Pdf

This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952–1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region’s dictatorships. With his research in multiple archives including those in Cuba, Prados offers a new, transnational perspective on conflicts over dictatorship and democracy, which shaped the Caribbean in the decades that followed World War II. The book traces the roots of the ‘Caribbean Legion’, a transnational network of anti-dictatorial revolutionaries, before detailing how Castro and many of his allies in exile exploited this web during the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Contacts in this network provided the Cuban revolutionaries with crucial military, financial, and diplomatic support from the democratic governments of José Figueres in Costa Rica, and Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, entangling the Cuban revolutionaries in a larger regional struggle between democratic regimes and military dictatorships. This transnational involvement shaped the revolutionary regime of 1959 and had far-reaching repercussions for the larger geopolitical dynamics in the region, and for the Cold War as a whole.

Author : Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789123074

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Cuba Betrayed by Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar Pdf

Cuba Betrayed, first published in 1962, is an autobiographical work of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, in which he expresses his viewpoint regarding his two terms as dictator, his defeat, and his successors—Cuba’s “Betrayers.” “The book is not meant to be a literary masterpiece. Still less has there been any attempt at stylistic elegance. It is, rather, an exposition of facts, a narration based on memory and notes.”—Introduction

Author : Ramón L. Bonachea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138534978

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Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959 by Ramón L. Bonachea Pdf

The Cuban Insurrection is an in-depth study of the first stage of the Cuban Revolution, the years from 1952 to 1959. The volume depicts the origins of the conflict, details the middle years, and ends with Fidel Castro's victorious arrival In Havana on January 8, 1959. Based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished original material, including confidential military reports, letters from various leaders of the insurrection and data gathered from interviews held In Cuba and abroad, the book Is a descriptive historical analysis of the struggle against military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The authors challenge the traditional premise that Cuba's insurrection began in the rural areas and only later expanded into urban areas. Instead they argue that the insurrectionary struggle was based upon combined urban-rural guerrilla warfare against the regular army. Basically, The Cuban Insurrection treats two major movements involved in the struggle�The Directorio Revolucionario and the M-26-7�and examines the growth, ideology, conflicts, and military strategies of their respective rural and urban organizations. The book includes a detailed analysis of combat, strikes, uprisings, and expeditions. Original maps and charts illustrate battles, maneuvers, and guerrilla political structures.

Author : Linda A. Klouzal
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604975253

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Women and Rebel Communities in the Cuban Insurgent Movement, 1952-1959 by Linda A. Klouzal Pdf

This book is a rare and important study on the people and many of the groups and activist regions involved in the Cuban insurrection of the 1950s. It addresses the insurgent movement, how people were drawn into the struggle, the structure of the movement, including its different activist groups and how rebels operated effectively, and the role women played in this struggle. It sheds light on the localized and social aspects of the struggle, a topic that relatively little has been written on. The cultural, relational, emotional, and experiential factors that affected activists value formation and recruitment are also investigated."

Author : Samuel Farber
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461660

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Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959 by Samuel Farber Pdf

“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

Author : Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048765

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Revolutionary Cuba by Luis Martínez-Fernández Pdf

This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellion that led to the revolution. Beginning with Batista’s coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and bringing the reader to the present-day transformations initiated by Raúl Castro, Luis Martínez-Fernández provides a balanced interpretive synthesis of the major topics of contemporary Cuban history. Expertly weaving the myriad historic, social, and political forces that shaped the island nation during this period, Martínez-Fernández examines the circumstances that allowed the revolution to consolidate in the early 1960s, the Soviet influence throughout the latter part of the Cold War, and the struggle to survive the catastrophic Special Period of the 1990s after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. He tackles the island’s chronic dependence on sugar production, which started with the plantations centuries ago and continues to shape culture and society. He analyzes the revolutionary pendulum that continues to swing between idealism and pragmatism, focusing on its effects on the everyday lives of the Cuban people, and—bucking established trends in Cuban scholarship—Martínez-Fernández systematically integrates the Cuban diaspora into the larger discourse of the revolution. Concise, well written, and accessible, this book is an indispensable survey of the history and themes of the socialist revolution that forever changed Cuba and the world.

Author : Eldon Wayne Lanning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Bolivia
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025303095

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The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 and the Cuban Revolution of 1959 by Eldon Wayne Lanning Pdf

Author : Deborah Shnookal
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683401995

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Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children by Deborah Shnookal Pdf

This in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in U.S.-Cuba relations sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied children to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Operation Pedro Pan is often remembered within the U.S. as an urgent “rescue” mission, but Deborah Shnookal points out that a multitude of complex factors drove the exodus, including Cold War propaganda and the Catholic Church’s opposition to the island’s new government. Shnookal illustrates how and why Cold War scare tactics were so effective in setting the airlift in motion, focusing on their context: the rapid and profound social changes unleashed by the 1959 Revolution, including the mobilization of 100,000 Cuban teenagers in the 1961 national literacy campaign. Other reforms made by the revolutionary government affected women, education, religious schools, and relations within the family and between the races. Shnookal exposes how, in its effort to undermine support for the revolution, the U.S. government manipulated the aspirations and insecurities of more affluent Cubans. She traces the parallel stories of the young “Pedro Pans” separated from their families—in some cases indefinitely—in what is often regarded in Cuba as a mass “kidnapping” and the children who stayed and joined the literacy brigades. These divergent journeys reveal many underlying issues in the historically fraught relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and much about the profound social revolution that took place on the island after 1959. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Frank Mankiewicz,Kirby Jones,Fidel Castro
Publisher : Chicago : Playboy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000117039

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With Fidel by Frank Mankiewicz,Kirby Jones,Fidel Castro Pdf

Contains interviews of July and Oct., 1974, with Castro.