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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered - Couverture souple

Livre 8 sur 36: Envisioning Cuba

Farber, Samuel

 
9780807856734: The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807856738 ISBN 13 : 9780807856734
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807856738
ISBN 13 
9780807856734
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
227
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