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Book 5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution

Download or read book 5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution written by Tamara Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cuban Revolution

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  • Author : Teo A. Babun
  • Publisher : Babun Group Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0813028604
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Cuban Revolution written by Teo A. Babun and published by Babun Group Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trutie's photographs, most of them never before seen, capture everything - the Revolution's soldiers and firing squads, President John F. Kennedy's 1962 address in Miami to Cuban exiles, and Brigade 2506, the liberation army that sought to overthrow Castro. These images vividly document the inner life of a revolution with candid images of rebels dining together, jeeps moving through rustic, muddy camps, and Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara walking side by side in a reflective moment. Trutie's camera also sees the tragic side of revolutionary activity - burning sugar mills, jungle hospitals, and corpses with pockets turned inside out, lying in open graves. These raw, unfiltered photos, combined with the narrative text of Teo A. Babun and noted Cuban-American historian Victor Triay, offer a one-of-a-kind, intimate eyewitness account of the Cuban Revolution as it unfolded."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Cuban Revolution

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  • Author : Hugh S. Thomas
  • Publisher : Westview Press
  • Release : 1984-11-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Cuban Revolution written by Hugh S. Thomas and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1984-11-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolutionary Cuba

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  • Author : Luis Martínez-Fernández
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2014-09-16
  • ISBN : 0813048761
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Revolutionary Cuba written by Luis Martínez-Fernández and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Cuba

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  • Author : Rowan Ireland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by Rowan Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Years of Revolution

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  • Author : Soraya M. Castro Mariño
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2012-08-15
  • ISBN : 0813043611
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Fifty Years of Revolution written by Soraya M. Castro Mariño and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, eleven men have served as president of the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth. Yet none of them has been able to effect any significant change in the stalemate between the United States and Cuba, its closest neighbor not to share a land border. Fifty Years of Revolution features contributions from an international Who's Who gallery of leading scholars. The volume adopts a uniquely nonpartisan attitude, a departure from this topic's generally divisive nature. Emerging from a series of meetings, conference panels, and lectures, the book coheres more strongly than the typical essay collection. Organized to analyze--not describe--Cuba’s foreign relations, the work examines sanctions, the embargo, regime change, Guantánamo, the exile community, and more. Drawing from personal experiences as well as recently declassified documents, these essays update, summarize, and explain one of the prickliest political issues in the Western Hemisphere today.

Book A History of the Cuban Revolution

Download or read book A History of the Cuban Revolution written by Aviva Chomsky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul Castro All of the existing chapters have been updated to reflect recent scholarship Balances social and historical insight into the revolution with economic and political analysis extending into the twenty-first century Juxtaposes U.S. and Cuban perspectives on the historical impact of the revolution, engaging and debunking the myths and preconceptions surrounding one of the most formative political events of the twentieth century Incorporates more student-friendly features such as a timeline and glossary

Book Cuba  twenty five Years of Revolution  1959 1984

Download or read book Cuba twenty five Years of Revolution 1959 1984 written by Sandor Halebsky and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on cultural change, economic reform, political development and foreign policy initiated by the 1959 revolution in Cuba - analyses educational policy, health services, food security, social status of women, and evolution of the Catholic Church; examines the emergence of popular culture, film industry and literature; looks at economic policy, economic planning, the political system, the legal system, working class, etc.; discusses international relations, partic. The role of USA and role of USSR. References, statistical tables.

Book Inside the Cuban Revolution

Download or read book Inside the Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Cuban Revolution

Download or read book The Cuban Revolution written by G. Prentzas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Cuban Revolution succeeded in overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, rebel commander Fidel Castro declared, "The Revolution begins now." In the following decades, Castro remade Cuba into a one-party socialist.

Book A History of the Cuban Revolution

Download or read book A History of the Cuban Revolution written by Aviva Chomsky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul Castro All of the existing chapters have been updated to reflect recent scholarship Balances social and historical insight into the revolution with economic and political analysis extending into the twenty-first century Juxtaposes U.S. and Cuban perspectives on the historical impact of the revolution, engaging and debunking the myths and preconceptions surrounding one of the most formative political events of the twentieth century Incorporates more student-friendly features such as a timeline and glossary

Book Cuban Revolution Reader

Download or read book Cuban Revolution Reader written by Julio García Luis and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of books to be published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this anthology is based upon primary source material and documents the key moments of the revolution and its impact outwith Cuba.

Book Cuba in Revolution

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  • Author : Antoni Kapcia
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 1861894481
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Cuba in Revolution written by Antoni Kapcia and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point, which is what Antoni Kapcia provides with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Cuba In Revolution takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analyzing social change, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution, and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes into Castro’s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defense and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the United States from the beginning of his reign. The book also considers the evolution of the revolution’s international profile and Cuba’s foreign relations over the years, investigating issues and events such as the Bay of Pigs crisis, Cuban relations with Communist nations like Russia and China, and the flight of asylum-seeking Cubans to Florida over the decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 catalyzed a severe economic and political crisis in Cuba, but Cuba was surprisingly resilient in the face of the catastrophe, Kapcia notes, and he examines the strategies adopted by Cuba over the last two decades in order to survive America’s longstanding trade embargo. A fascinating and much-needed examination of a country that has served as an important political symbol and diplomatic enigma for the twentieth century, Cuba In Revolution is a critical primer for all those interested in Cuba’s past—or concerned with its future.

Book Visions of Power in Cuba

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  • Author : Lillian Guerra
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0807835633
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Visions of Power in Cuba written by Lillian Guerra and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Cuba s Forgotten Decade

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  • Author : Emily J. Kirk
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-08-24
  • ISBN : 1498568742
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Cuba s Forgotten Decade written by Emily J. Kirk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the course of the Revolution. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s which challenges prevailing interpretations. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and exploring a range of areas—including politics, international relations, culture, education, and healthcare—its contributing authors demonstrate that the decade was a time of intense transformation which proved pivotal to the development of the Revolution. Indeed, many of the ideas, approaches, policies, and legislation developed and tested during the 1970s maintain a very visible legacy in contemporary Cuba. In highlighting the complexity of the 1970s, this volume ultimately aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the Cuban Revolution and how it chooses to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Book Cuba   s Revolutionary World

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  • Author : Jonathan C. Brown
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-04-24
  • ISBN : 0674978323
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book Cuba s Revolutionary World written by Jonathan C. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Cuban Revolution

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  • Author : Earle Rice, Jr.
  • Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Cuban Revolution written by Earle Rice, Jr. and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an historical overview of the history of Cuba from 1959 and the Cuban Revolution.