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On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time "the real Revolution" had arrived. As Jonath...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time "the real Revolution" had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro's words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba's Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 586 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-560) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674971981 0674971981 |
| Index Number: | JC491 |
| CLC: |
D775.19 D773.09 |
| Call Number: | D773.09/B878 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Part one. Revolution and counterrevolution in Cuba. How to consolidate a revolution -- The Caribbean war of 1959 -- Cuba and the Sino-Soviet dispute -- The gusano counterrevolution -- The bandido counterrevolution -- Commandos of the Caribbean -- The export of revolution -- Part two. The secret war for South America. Revolutionary diplomacy and democracy -- Venezuela's guerrilla war -- Military counterrevolution in Brazil -- Soldiers and revolution in Peru -- From riots to golpe in Panama -- Origins of Argentina's armed struggle -- The last campaign of Che Guevara -- Conclusi |