The Long Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism - Couverture rigide

Horowitz, Irving

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1412808790 ISBN 13 : 9781412808798

Editeur : Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere.

For more than a half century since then Cuba has been defined by the capacity of a single family to command and determine the fate of a nation--and to do so with a minimum of opposition. Incredibly, even those professing adhesion to democratic norms have been ready to forgive the dictator his excesses. This volume explains the theory and practice of this absence of internal opposition and the persistence of external support for the Castro family and its entourage.

The Long Night of Dark Intent is chronological in order, with the author indicating major points in each of the five decades covered. The volume covers five centers of system analysis: economics, politics, society, military, and ideology. Who or what "determines" events and decisions is the stuff of real history. It is precisely due to variability in causal chains in society that we have huge variance in levels of predictability. The course of the Cuban Revolution gives strong support for such an approach to the Castro Era. This is a unique, unflinching account with a strong emphasis on the importance of U.S. policy decisions over time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. The author served on the executive advisory board of the U.S. Information Agency for Radio/TV Marti, 1978-90 and was a special consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America in 1984. In 1994 he was the Bacardi Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. With Jaime Suchlicki, he has edited eleven editions of what has come to be known as the bible of Cuban Studies, Cuban Communism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412808790
• ISBN 13: 9781412808798
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 622
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• Personne responsable: non disponible