Envisioning Cuba

By: Samuel Farber

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Paperback | 30 March 2006

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Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan.

Exploring how historical conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution.

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"A first-rate synthesis and interpretation of the Cuban revolutionary experience - both the rebellion against the Batista regime and the consolidation of power in 1959-60. It is intelligent, well written, and well organized....It is a major contribution to the field of Cuban studies. - Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University"

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations History Regional & National History History of the Americas Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Specific Events & Topics in History Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions Political Activism Revolutionary Groups & Movements Political Ideologies & Movements Far-Left Political Ideologies & Movements

Chronology : major events in Cuban history, 1868-1961
The prerevolutionary economy : progress or stagnation?	p. 7
Fidel Castro and the Cuban populist tradition	p. 34
U.S. policy and the Cuban revolution	p. 69
The driving force of the Cuban revolution : from above or from below?	p. 112
The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban communists	p. 137
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