The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Title | The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Farber |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2007-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807877093 |
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.
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
Title | Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Farber |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608461394 |
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution’s impact and legacy.
The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution
Title | The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Jules R. Benjamin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691214964 |
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.
Visions of Power in Cuba
Title | Visions of Power in Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Guerra |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807835633 |
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
The Revolution is for the Children
Title | The Revolution is for the Children PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Casavantes Bradford |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 146961152X |
Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Title | A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cushion |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-02-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1583675825 |
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?
No Barrier Can Contain It
Title | No Barrier Can Contain It PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Mae Lambe |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2019-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469652862 |
Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to look at their fight against strongman rule and neocolonial control at home as part of the international antifascism movement that exploded with the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by multiple domestic setbacks, including Colonel Fulgencio Batista's violent crushing of a massive general strike, activists found strength in the face of repression by refusing to view their political goals as confined to the island. As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new constitution and presidential elections.