Cuban Revolution Past, Present and Future Perspectives

Name: Cuban Revolution Past, Present and Future Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780333968536

ISBN-10: 0333968530

ISBN-13: 9780333968536

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Geraldine Lievesley

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The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors -- the Cuban leaders and people themselves, the states of Central and Latin America (particularly left-wing parties and popular movements within them), the American political establishment, the American public and the Cuban exile community in the US, the Soviet Union, the Third World, and academic observers and political activists. The political process initiated in 1959 is discussed within a broad historical context with particular focus upon significant themes such as: the politics of national identity; the interaction between class, race and gender in the formation of that identity; the…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 3/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Map of Cuba



Introduction



Encounters with 'the Monster' and Others


Revolutionary struggle in Cuba: the 1950s, Batista, Castro and the Americans


The Cuban Revolution engages with the world


Cuba and the United States in the 1960s



The Politics of National Identity


Introduction


Imperial encounters


Economic encounters


Cultural encounters


The contested nature of citizenship


Destierro--the experience of exile



Generations of Protest


Jose Marti


Students, communists and pistoleros


Che and Fidel


Cuba and the Latin American revolution


Revolutionary triumph--the building of Cuba libre



The Revolution Matures


Social and economic policy


Foreign policy


Havana and Washington


Cuba and Reaganism


Cuba and the US enter the 1990s


Rectification--invoking the spirit of the 1960s



The Cuban State and the Cuban People


The nature of political rule


Cuban civil society


Revolutionary culture



Conclusion


Coming out of the Special Period


US Cuba policy in the 1990s


Coming to terms with difference


Prospects for the Revolution


Notes


Bibliography


Index