Inside The Cuban Revolution
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Inside The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Julia Sweig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-25
Inside The Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-25 with History categories.
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.
Inside The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Julia Sweig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Inside The Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
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.
Inside The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Julia Sweig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-25
Inside The Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-25 with History categories.
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.
Cuba In Revolution
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Author : Antoni Kapcia
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2008-11-15
Cuba In Revolution written by Antoni Kapcia and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-15 with History categories.
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.
Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War 1956 58
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Author : Che Guevara
language : en
Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
Release Date : 1996
Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War 1956 58 written by Che Guevara and has been published by Pathfinder Press (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A first hand account of the military campaigns and political events that culminated in the January 1959 popular insurrection that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship in Cuba. With clarity and humor, Guevara describes his own political education. He explains how the struggle transformed the men and women of the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement led by Fidel Castro. And how these combatants forged a political leadership capable of guiding millions of workers and peasants to open the socialist revolution in the Americas. Guevara's Episodes appears here complete for the first time in English.
Cuba Since The Revolution Of 1959
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Author : Samuel Farber
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2011
Cuba Since The Revolution Of 1959 written by Samuel Farber and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Farber provides a critical analysis of the revolution's impact and legacy on Cuba.
Leadership In The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Antoni Kapcia
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Leadership In The Cuban Revolution written by Antoni Kapcia and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Political Science categories.
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.
The Guerrilla Legacy Of The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Anna Clayfield
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-05-16
The Guerrilla Legacy Of The Cuban Revolution written by Anna Clayfield and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with History categories.
In this extensively researched book, Anna Clayfield challenges contemporary Western views on the militarization of Cuba. She argues that, while the pervasiveness of armed forces in revolutionary Cuba is hard to refute, it is the guerrilla legacy, ethos, and image—“guerrillerismo”—that has helped the Cuban revolutionary project survive. The veneration of the guerrilla fighter has been crucial to the political culture’s underdog mentality. Analyzing official discourse, including newspapers, history textbooks, army training manuals, the writings of Che Guevara, and the speeches of Fidel Castro, Clayfield examines how the Cuban government has promoted guerrilla motifs. After 1959, the revolutionary leadership relied on this discourse to shape a new political culture. During the implementation of Soviet-style management in the late 1960s and 1970s, Cuba underwent profound structural changes, but the beliefs and values that underpinned the Revolution—and that were linked to the guerrilla ethos—were still upheld. Clayfield traces the shifting ideologies that circulated in Cuba during the 1980s to show how this rhetorical strategy helped prevent the proliferation of a siege mentality. The guerrilla code became a recourse Cuban leadership used to steel the population through the 1990s Special Period following the collapse of the Soviet Union. And while the outside world perceived the changes that took place during Raúl Castro’s tenure to be signs the Revolution’s socialist model was fading, Clayfield proves guerrillerismo remained an important anchor for the new regime. By weaving the guerrilla ethos into the fabric of Cuban identity, the government has garnered legitimacy for the political authority of former guerrilleros, even decades after the end of armed conflicts. The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution chronicles how guerrilla rhetoric has allowed the Revolution to adapt and transform over time while appearing to remain true to its founding principles. It also raises the question of just how long this discourse can sustain the Revolution when its leaders are no longer veterans of the sierra, those guerrillas who participated in the armed struggle that brought them to power so many years ago.
Revolution Within The Revolution
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Author : Michelle Chase
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-11-30
Revolution Within The Revolution written by Michelle Chase and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with History categories.
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.
The Cuban Revolution In World Politics
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Author : Mary-Alice Waters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Cuban Revolution In World Politics written by Mary-Alice Waters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with categories.
This series includes essential speeches, documents, and interviews spanning over 50 years of revolutionary activity by men and women whose lives have been shaped by their determination to defend the Cuban revolution and its internationalist course * from the Congo, to Angola and southern Africa to Grenada, Nicaragua, Venezuela and beyond. First-hand accounts of a revolution that continues to change the course of history.Each volume is a chapter in the history of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Introductions by series editor Mary-Alice Waters highlight the experiences of fighters over decades, from the guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra and the revolutionary underground in Cuba's cities, to the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Angola, and Venezuela. They provide historical and political background that make the material accessible to readers unfamiliar with Cuba and its role in the world today. Photographs, maps, glossary, and comprehensive index add to each book's value in the classroom and in research. Titles are also available for purchase separately.*The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of revolutionary struggle in the Americas adopted by the Cuban people*Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution By Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong*Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58 By Armando Hart*Marianas in Combat: The Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War By Tete Puebla*October 1962: The 'Missile' Crisis as Seen from Cuba By Tomás Diez Acosta*From the Escambray to the Congo By Victor Dreke*Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs By Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández*Cuba and the Coming American Revolution By Jack Barnes*Fertile Ground: Che Guevara and Bolivia By Rodolfo Saldaña*Che Guevara Talks to Young People*Making History By Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, José Ramón Fernández, and Nestor López Cuba*Pombo: A Man of Che's guerrilla By Harry Villegas*Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War By Che Guevara*The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara*To Speak the Truth By Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara*How Far We Slaves Have Come! By Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro*U.S. Hands Off the Mideast! By Fidel Castro and Ricardo Alarcón*In Defense of Socialism By Fidel Castro