Revolutionary Cuba

Author : Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Teishan A. Latner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635477

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Cuban Revolution in America by Teishan A. Latner Pdf

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.

Author : Lillian Guerra
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235333

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Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958 by Lillian Guerra Pdf

A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of the dictator Fulgencio Batista In this important and timely volume, one of today’s foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba’s electoral democracy underwent a tumultuous transformation into a military dictatorship. Lillian Guerra draws on her years of research in newly opened archives and on personal interviews to shed light on the men and women of Cuba who participated in mass mobilization and civic activism to establish social movements in their quest for social and racial justice and for more accountable leadership. Driven by a sense of duty toward la patria (the fatherland) and their dedication to heroism and martyrdom, these citizens built a powerful underground revolutionary culture that shaped and witnessed the overthrow of Batista in the late 1950s. Beautifully illustrated with archival photographs, this volume is a stunning addition to Latin American history and politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:1296041929

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Revolutionary Cuba by Anonim Pdf

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 : Michelle Chase
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Robert W. Whitney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0807849251

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State and Revolution in Cuba by Robert W. Whitney Pdf

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

Author : Steve Cushion
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583675823

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A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution by Steve Cushion Pdf

Organized labor in the 1950s -- A crisis of productivity -- The employers' offensive -- Workers take stock -- Responses to state terror -- Two strikes -- Last days of Batista -- The first year of the new Cuba -- Conclusion: what was the role of organized labor in the Cuban insurrection?

Author : Jonathan C. Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978324

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Cuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan C. Brown Pdf

As Castro’s democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century’s most transformative events.

Author : Antoni Kapcia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Samuel Farber
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461394

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Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959 by Samuel Farber Pdf

Farber provides a critical analysis of the revolution's impact and legacy on Cuba.

Author : Terence Cannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172012684012

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Revolutionary Cuba by Terence Cannon Pdf

A history of the Cuban Revolution based on the writings and perspectives of its leaders and on the author's travel and research in Cuba.

Author : Antoni Kapcia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726414

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A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba by Antoni Kapcia Pdf

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.

Author : Richard E. Welch Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469610467

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Response to Revolution by Richard E. Welch Jr. Pdf

The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst in shaping American foreign policy over the past generation. Welch's study is the first detailed evaluation of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the early years of the Castro regime and the first effort to analyze public sentiment during that crucial period. Our response to Cuba was a mirror of our Cold War assumptions and frustrations--and of our apprehensions concerning revolutionary movements abroad.

Author : Earle Rice, Jr.
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034394174

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The Cuban Revolution by Earle Rice, Jr. Pdf

Provides an historical overview of the history of Cuba from 1959 and the Cuban Revolution.