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

Isabel Story is senior lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

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; Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America, Mexico & Central America, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era