Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 19611987 - When the Soviets Came to Stay

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution's independence.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Structure
Chapter 2: The Soviet-Cuban Relationship
Chapter 3: The Conception and Trajectory of Socialist Realism in the USSR
Chapter 4: Cuban Cultural Policy, 1959-1975: Diversity and Rising Nationalism
Chapter 5: Cuban Cultural Policy 1976-1986: Inscribing Cuba in the International
Chapter 6: Staging the Revolution
Chapter 7: Adelante el Arte: The Plastic Arts in Cuba
Chapter 8: Soviet Ruins and Stylized Nostalgia

About the author

By Isabel Story

Summary

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution’s independence.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Story, Isabel M. Story
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498580113
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8011-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Lexington Studies on Cuba
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Cuba Studies, Cuban history, Cuban revolution, Cultural policy, cultural production, International Relations, socialist internationalism, socialist realism, soft power, Soviets and Cuba, soviety union