Leadership In The Cuban Revolution

Author : Antoni Kapcia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780325262

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Leadership in the Cuban Revolution by Antoni Kapcia Pdf

Most conventional readings of the Cuban Revolution have seemed mesmerised by the personality and role of Fidel Castro, often missing a deeper political understanding of the Revolution's underlying structures, bases of popular loyalty and ethos of participation. In this ground-breaking work, Antoni Kapcia focuses instead on a wider cast of characters. Along with the more obvious, albeit often misunderstood, contributions from Che Guevara and Raúl Castro, Kapcia looks at the many others who, over the decades, have been involved in decision-making and have often made a significant difference. He interprets their various roles within a wider process of nation-building, demonstrating that Cuba has undergone an unusual, if not unique, process of change. Essential reading for anyone interested in Cuba's history and its future.

Author : Doug Lorimer
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1876646071

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The Cuban Revolution and Its Leadership by Doug Lorimer Pdf

Author : Tom Gibb
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817257187

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Fidel Castro by Tom Gibb Pdf

Discusses the life and times of Fidel Castro who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 and how he reorganized the country into a Communist state.

Author : Samuel Farber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877098

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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered by Samuel Farber Pdf

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.

Author : Tamara Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 0986471615

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5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution by Tamara Hansen Pdf

Author : Julia E. Sweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674267695

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Inside the Cuban Revolution by Julia E. Sweig Pdf

Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, 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 ideological, political, and strategic debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities. In a close study of the fifteen months from November 1956 to July 1958, when the urban underground leadership was dominant, Sweig examines the debate between the two groups over whether to wage guerrilla warfare in the countryside or armed insurrection in the cities, and is the first to document the extent of Castro's cooperation with the Llano. She unveils the essential role of the urban underground, led by such figures as Frank País, Armando Hart, Haydée Santamaria, Enrique Oltuski, and Faustino Pérez, in controlling critical decisions on tactics, strategy, allocation of resources, and relations with opposition forces, political parties, Cuban exiles, even the United States--contradicting the standard view of Castro as the primary decision maker during the revolution. In revealing the true relationship between Castro and the urban underground, Sweig redefines the history of the Cuban Revolution, offering guideposts for understanding Cuban politics in the 1960s and raising intriguing questions for the future transition of power in Cuba.

Author : Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351519939

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Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution by Carlos Alberto Montaner Pdf

Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has written a definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator. This is not simply a history of Cuban communism but rather a personal history of its leader, Fidel Castro. Montaner's extraordinary knowledge of the country and its politics prevents the work from becoming a psychiatric examination from afar. Indeed, what personal irrationalities exist are seen as built into the fabric of the regime itself, and not simply as a personality aberration.Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution is not an apologia for past United States involvement in Cuban affairs. The author is severe in his judgments of such participation. Nor is he sparing in his sense of the betrayal of the original purposes of the Revolution of 1959 manifested in the character and policies of Fidel Castro. As the work progresses from a study of the victims to a study of the beneficiaries of the Cuban Revolution, it leaves the reader with a deep sense of the tragedy of a revolution betrayed, but not one that could have easily been avoided.Montaner is an ""exile"" like the great Alexander Herzen before him. His decision to live in Europe was made by choice, not of necessity. He sees his role as critical analyst, not as restoring the status quo ante. A most valuable aspect of this book is its intimate reevaluation of Fulgencio Batista. Whatever the reader's judgment of Montaner's work, no one can read it and be dismissive of the effort. It is a work of intimacy even through written in exile--and hence must be viewed as an important effort to understand the character of the man and regime who have changed the course of Cuban history in our times.

Author : C Niel Ronning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313367977

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Jose Marti and the Emigre Colony in Key West by C Niel Ronning Pdf

This penetrating study of political leadership and state formation centers on the Cuban leader Jose Marti (1853-1895) and his relationship with Key West, Florida, the major Cuban emigre colony of the time. The first book to explore specifically Marti's leadership qualities and style of leadership, it will be of significant interest to political scientists and students interested in the ways in which potential leaders react to the circumstances encountered and challenges faced in their quest for leadership. Ronning explains how Marti actively sought leadership of the Cuban struggle for independence, effectively applying his personal qualities to meet the needs and desires of his community of emigres in Key West. But, Ronning shows, Marti never lost sight of what he perceived as higher humanitarian and humanistic goals for a truly just republic, believing that the process of state formation must coincide with the struggle for independence itself. Ronning begins with both a synopsis of major events in Marti's life before his first visit to Key West and an analysis of the social needs of the Cuban emigre community in Key West at that time. The bulk of the study concentrates on the period of three years when Marti made several historic visits to Key West and is based upon in-depth examination of the voluminous correspondence between Marti and dozens of Key West residents in all social categories as well as Marti's own newspaper Patria, which provided another avenue of communication with the emigre community. Analyzing these sources in light of specific events and challenges in Marti's short career as a leader, Ronning shows how Marti used the island of Key West and its emigre community as a psychic focus for the liberation of Cuba itself. The final chapter offers a synthesis of Marti's various techniques, skills, and qualities as well as Key West's response to his efforts.

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647482763

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The Cuban Revolution by Captivating History Pdf

The Americans that had been so intensely involved in liberating it from the grasp of the Spanish quickly began to exploit it using the Platt Amendment; even after the amendment was abrogated, Cuban presidents arose and seized power in coup after bloody coup.

Author : Jacques Lévesque
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004832617

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The USSR and the Cuban Revolution by Jacques Lévesque Pdf

Author : Janette Habel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0860913082

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Cuba by Janette Habel Pdf

Revolutionary Cuba today faces challenges and perils greater than at any time since the defeat of the US-backed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion in 1961. The Soviet Union, Cuba's main ally, is both weakened and divided, the Sandinistas are now in opposition, and remaining Communist governments are everywhere in crisis. These developments have combined with Cuba's domestic problems to place the revolution under threat. In this thorough but critical study, Janette Habel shows that, despite great achievements in public health and education, a malaise has developed in Cuban society. Detailing the arbitrary limits set upon popular participation and the absence of a properly functioning socialist democracy, she reveals a dangerous ossification of Cuba's once innovative and radical order, and a growing alienation of youth. This scrupulous account of the perils facing the Cuban revolution never forgets the appalling external pressures under which this small state labours. But it insists that only a bold new policy of revolutionary democracy offers the prospect of conserving--and building upon--the gains of the revolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018670370

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Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution by Anonim Pdf

How did the Cuban revolution come about? Why does it represent, as Joseph Hansen put it, an "unbearable challenge" to U.S. imperialism? What political challenges has it confronted? Written with polemical clarity as the revolution advanced.

Author : Socialist Workers Party (Australia)
Publisher : Pathfinder Press Australia
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0909196214

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The Cuban Revolution and Its Extension by Socialist Workers Party (Australia) Pdf

'Adopted by the Australian Socialist Workers Party at its national conference in January 1983. In October 1984 the SWP's National Committee amended the resolution ... that is presented here'.

Author : Jill C. Wheeler
Publisher : Core Library
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1680789651

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Fidel Castro by Jill C. Wheeler Pdf

In 1959, Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban government and became its new leader. Fidel Castro: Cuban Revolutionary Leader explores the early life of Castro and his rise to power. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Rafael Fermoselle
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UVA:X002626490

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Cuban Leadership After Castro by Rafael Fermoselle Pdf