Inside the Cuban Revolution - Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground

Informationen zum Autor Julia E. Sweig is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Latin America Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Klappentext Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in this compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground. 20 halftones. 2 maps. Zusammenfassung Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: History! Mythology! and Revolution 1. "Tactics in Politics and Tactics in Revolution Are Not the Same" 2. The Sierra Manifesto 3. "We Had to Act a Bit Dictatorially" 4. Defining Opposition Unity on the Ground 5. Fear and Loathing in Miami 6. Taming the Politiqueros in Exile 7. With Friends Like These! Who Needs Enemies? 8. Total War? 9. The Golden Age of the Llano 10. The Arms Race 11. Politics and Popular Insurrection 12. "Bordering on Chaos" 13. Picking up the Pieces 14. Unity: "Like a Magic Word" 15. The Pact of Caracas 16. Hasta La Victoria! Epilogue: Transitions Then and Now About the Research Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Julia E. Sweig, Sweig Julia E.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2004
• EAN: 9780674016125
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01612-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Revolutionary groups and movements