Revolutionary Cuba: a history

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"Beginning with Batista's coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and concluding with present-day transformations initiated under Raúl Castro, Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced analytical synthesis of all the major topics of contemporary Cuban history"--

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Full title :Revolutionary Cuba : a history / Luis Martínez-Fernández.

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"Beginning with Batista's coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and concluding with present-day transformations initiated under Raúl Castro, Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced analytical synthesis of all the major topics of contemporary Cuban history"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Florida
Place of Publication:Gainesville, FL
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvii, 385 pages : : illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1319576327
LC Classification:F1788
Dewey Decimal:972.9106/4

Part I. Idealism, 1952-1970. History will absolve me : the rebellion, 1952-1958 -- Fatherland or death! Setting the revolution's foundations, 1959-1962 -- The ten million will happen : expanding socialism, 1963-1970 -- Part II. Personalistic institutionalization, 1971-1990. We must turn the setback into victory : Sovietization, institutionalization, and the expanding Cuban diaspora, 1971-1985 -- Now we are going to build socialism : crisis and rectification, 1986-1990 -- Part III. Survival, 1991-2013. Socialism or death! The long special period, 1991-2000 -- This revolution can destroy itself : Cuba at the dawn of the new millennium, 2001-2011 -- Rectify and change ... all that should be rectified and changed : transitions, elections, and successions, 2011-2013 -- Conclusion : rewinding the threads in the labyrinth -- Epilogue : you are my friend.

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Cuba Cuba -- Histoire -- 1933-1959 Cuba -- Histoire -- 1959 (Révolution) Cuba -- Histoire -- 1959-1990 Cuba -- Histoire -- 1990- Cuba -- History -- 1933-1959 Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990 Cuba -- History -- 1990- Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959 History Kubanische Revolution Since 1933