The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Cuban Revolution This study provides an examination of the achievements and failures of the Cuban revolution. The text places the revolution firmly within the context of 20th-century Cuban history, from the inauguration of the republic in 1902 to Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 03 December 1998
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Comparative Politics | Marxism & Communism | Revolutionary Groups & Movements | History Of The Americas | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000 | Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions
- ISBN 13: 9780195127492 ISBN 10: 0195127498
- Sales rank: 1,049,452
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Full description for The Cuban Revolution
This timely study provides a re-examination of the achievements and failures of the Cuban revolution. The Cuban Revolution places the revolution firmly within the context of twentieth century Cuban history, beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 to Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959, and hightlights the factors - such as a one-crop (sugar) economy and U.S. intereference in Cuban affairs - which made Cuba susceptible to revolution. While identifying nationalism and the struggle for social justice as the legitimate forces behind the revolution, Perez-Stable also provides a fresh insight into the problems facing Castro's Cuba. Arguing that the revolution actually ended in 1970, she blames its defeat on the regime's profitable yet doomed dependence on the Soviet Union and on the failure of Cuba's leaders to diversity the country's economy, sustain development, or create democratic institutions. The Cuban Revolution also focuses special attention on Cuba's confrontation with the United States. This second edition has been updated to include an entirely new chapter with coverage of the changes affecting Cuba's policies and economy since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of communism in general, as well as a new preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a thoroughly revised concluding chapter summing up the prospects and possibilities of Cuba's future in the twenty-first century.
