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Author : Lee Lockwood
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592442799
Author : Jorge Salazar-Carrillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351524766
This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an economic disaster for Cuba. The book first outlines Cuba's economic position prior to the revolution. It reviews Cuba's rankings with respect to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the 1950s and examines the strength of pre-Castro Cuba's foreign reserves and the health of its monetary system. It also presents pre-Castro Cuba's investments in health care and education and documents the island's development potential in the 1950s. The last few chapters describe the precipitous decline in all of these areas of Cuba's economy under Castro. Despite the socioeconomic catastrophe of the Castro years, the authors envision a post-Castro Cuba, where this book can provide a benchmark to measure the developmental success that the Cuban work-ethic and entrepreneurial spirit can generate in a free-market system.
Author : Frank Mankiewicz,Kirby Jones,Fidel Castro
Publisher : Chicago : Playboy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000100627
Contains interviews of July and Oct., 1974, with Castro.
Author : Maurice Halperin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082651250X
Devastating losses of economic support from the Eastern bloc after the advent of Perestroika were weakening an already shaky system. Hope for a productive socialist Cuba, so apparent in the sixties, had disappeared
Author : Susan Eva Eckstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135936068
This book has long been regarded as the definitive history of Castro's communist regime, beginning in 1959 through the 1990s. This updated, second edition contains a new epilogue by the author that covers the last decade, including such newsworthy events as the Elian Gonzalez controversy, the growing immigrant community of Cuban-Americans in Florida, the role of Cuban-Americans in the 2000 presidential election, the withering U.S. sales embargo and the inevitable transition of power now that Castro is in his mid-70s.
Author : Manuel Márquez-Sterling
Publisher : Kleiopatria Digital Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 9780615318561
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 : Fidel Castro,Deborah Shnookal
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004289685
This is the first autobiographical selection to be published in English that gives a glimpse of Fidel - the boy and the young man - who was to become one of the outstanding, if controversial, political leaders of the century. The book brings together a range of interviews and talks in which Fidel Castro speaks candidly about his family background, his religious education and political influences.
Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044197
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.
Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago,Jorge F. Pérez-López
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588269043
What led to the dramatic social and economic reforms introduced by Cuba¿s president Raul Castro. How effective have those reforms been? And what obstacles does Castro face in overcoming the country¿s chronic socioeconomic woes? Cuba Under Raul Castro addresses these questions, offering a comprehensive analysis of the president¿s efforts during his first six years in office.
Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007323986
English texts of Castro's speeches given between Nov. 25, 1994 and April 30, 1996, which first appeared in the Cuban weekly Granma International.
Author : Philip W. Bonsal
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822975939
Bonsal combines his memoirs of his experiences in Havana with an analysis of the relationship between Cuba and the United States both during the Batista and Castro regimes and during the earlier history of the Cuban Republic. His discussion of Castro's personality is incisive, portraying the Maximum Leader's increasing animosity toward the United States until the final break-off of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Bonsal's observations of Castro and the sociopolitical climate in Cuba are perhaps the most incisive and accurate of any to date on the subject. All the events from the Revolution to the termination of diplomatic relations are discussed. Of particular interest are Bonsal's accounts of his attempt to find a basis for a rational relationship between the United States and Castro's Revolution, the rejection of that attempt by Castro, and the abandonment by Washington of the policy of nonintervention in Cuban affairs which the Ambassador had advocated. Finally, in an evaluation of future relations between the two countries, Bonsal analyzes some of the major problems of the coming years.
Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022924438
Author : Luis M. Garcia
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741761387
Cuba, a land of cigars, hot nights, sultry music and romantic revolutionary heroes. But what was it really like to live in Fidel Castro's tropical paradise? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his Cuban childhood and his parents' dreams of escape. Child of the Revolution is a story about growing up in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time, as the superpowers prepared to go to war over nuclear missiles installed on the tiny Caribbean island. It's a story set in a world of uncertainty and revolutionary upheaval, where a 10-year-old swears allegiance to Lenin, Marx and the legendary Che Guevara under swaying palm trees, with no idea of what it all means, except this is the only way to become a better revolutionary' and get out of school early. It is also the story of brothers and sisters torn apart by politics and how a Cuban teenager and his family end up by sheer accident - on the other side of the world. Warm, generous and gently amusing, Child of the Revolution stirs the heart and brings music to the soul.
Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Cuban Revolution in World
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556018950840
Economic and social progress is not only possible without the dog-eat-dog competition of capitalism, but socialism remains the only way forward for humanity. He describes the decisive place of Cuban volunteer combatants in the final stage of the struggle in Angola against the invasion forces of the South African apartheid regime. Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, map, notes, index.
Author : Julie Marie Bunck
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271040270
"An excellent study of political culture, emphasizing cultural and normative resistance to revolutionary values, norms, and goals. Challenges much of the scholarship that maintained that revolution permanently transformed Cuba's traditional culture, and finds that 'most Cuban workers rejected many of the revolutionary requirements of the Castro government' (p. 184). Highly recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.