The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered

The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered / Samuel Farber.

Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, this book challenges scholarly views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. It states that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farber, Samuel, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:
1900-1999
HISTORY.
International relations
Politics and government
Diplomatic relations
War > Causes
Ursache
Latin America.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-1990.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1959 > Causes.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Relations > Cuba.
Cuba > Relations > United States.
Cuba
United States
Kuba > Revolution.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Epilogue.

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