Fidel Castro: a biography

by Skierka, Volker

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Title Statements

Full title :Fidel Castro : a biography / Volker Skierka ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007, ©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007, ©2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 440 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745630069, 0745630065, 9780745640815, 0745640818
oclc:ocn661001649
LC Classification:F1788.22.C3
Dewey Decimal:972.9106/4/092

The heroic myth -- The young Fidel -- Among Jesuits -- Among gangsters -- The young revolutionary -- Moncada : storm and stress -- "Che", the Argentinean -- Stormy crossing on the "Granma" -- A guerrillero in the Sierra Maestra -- Against 10,000 -- The young victor -- Communists and "barbudos" -- 1,500 revolutionary laws -- Old enemies, new friends -- The great powers at the gates -- The CIA, the Mafia, and the Bay of Pigs -- Fidelismo -- "Mongoose" and "Anadyr"-- Three gamblers -- The long march with Che -- Moscow, Beijing, and Havana -- The new man -- The demise of Che -- Bad times, good times -- War and peace with Moscow -- Ten million tons -- Into the Third World -- The revolution devours its children -- Alone against all -- Exodus to Florida -- Rectificacin and Perestroika -- The Soviet imperium collapses -- The brother's power.

Subjects

Biographies Castro, Fidel Chefs d'État -- Biographies. -- Cuba Cuba Cuba -- Histoire -- 1933-1959 Cuba -- History -- 1933-1959 Cuba -- History -- 1959- Heads of state Heads of state -- Biography. -- Cuba History Since 1933