Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered

Name: Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
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ISBN: 9780807856734

ISBN-10: 0807856738

ISBN-13: 9780807856734

Edition: 2006

Authors: Samuel Farber

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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…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Samuel Farber is professor of political science at Brooklyn College and author of three previous books, including Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960: A Political Sociology from Machado to Castro.



Chronology : major events in Cuban history, 1868-1961



The prerevolutionary economy : progress or stagnation?



Fidel Castro and the Cuban populist tradition



U.S. policy and the Cuban revolution



The driving force of the Cuban revolution : from above or from below?



The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban communists