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Author: C. Fred Judson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429716508 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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This volume provides is a look at the social function of myth during two distinct phases of the Cuban revolutionary process. The first period spanned the years of armed struggle, from 1953 through 1958, a time during which the rebel leadership prevailed. Moving onto the years between 1959 and 1963, the achievements during the revolutionary war, and particularly the deeds of the Rebel Army, in which sacrifice and measure of heroism whose function was to sustain morale and consciousness.
Author: C. Fred Judson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429716508 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
This volume provides is a look at the social function of myth during two distinct phases of the Cuban revolutionary process. The first period spanned the years of armed struggle, from 1953 through 1958, a time during which the rebel leadership prevailed. Moving onto the years between 1959 and 1963, the achievements during the revolutionary war, and particularly the deeds of the Rebel Army, in which sacrifice and measure of heroism whose function was to sustain morale and consciousness.
Author: Lillian Guerra Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807876380 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
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Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the "social unity" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jose Marti, reveal conflicting visions of the nation--visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United States. As Guerra explains, some nationalists supported incorporating foreign investment and values, while others sought social change through the application of an authoritarian model of electoral politics; still others sought a democratic government with social and economic justice. But for all factions, the image of Marti became the principal means by which Cubans attacked, policed, and discredited one another to preserve their own vision over others'. Guerra's examination demonstrates how competing historical memories and battles for control of a weak state explain why polarity, rather than consensus on the idea of the "nation" and the character of the Cuban state, came to define Cuban politics throughout the twentieth century.
Author: Ada Ferrer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501154575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 435
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.
Author: Dirk Kruijt Publisher: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN: 1783608056 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 247
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The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare. Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America is the first oral history of Cuba’s liberation struggle. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, Dirk Kruijt looks at the role of both veterans and the post-Revolution fidelista generation in shaping Cuba and the Americas. Featuring the testimonies of over sixty Cuban officials and former combatants, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America offers unique insight into a nation which, in spite of its small size and notional pariah status, remains one of the most influential countries in the Americas.
Author: Julia Sweig Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674044193 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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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. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
Author: Judson, Charles Frederick Publisher: National Library of Canada ISBN: 9780315124059 Category : Cuba Languages : en Pages : 0
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Social scientists and professional revolutionaries agree that revolutionary consciousness plays a crucial role in the making of revolution. A useful concept for the study of cons ciousness is provided by Georges Sorel: the revolutionary myth. Attempting to integrate the concepts of consciousness, myth and political education, the thesis traces the political education of the Cuban Rebel Army in the years 1953-1963. Political education is seen to be both an existential and a pedagogical experience in the Rebel Army, the effective core of the movement against Batista and for radical change in Cuba. Thus, political education of the militants is a pro cess of living the realities of struggle, while also a pro cess of study and reflection. Revolutionary myths, from the earliest days of the struggle, form an integral part of such study, while the experiences of struggle themselves become myths; indeed, many of the leaders and fighters become the materials of myths which mobilize the guerrillas and sustain revolutionary consciousness after the overthrow of Batista. The sources of revolutionary myths employed in the Rebel Army to raise political consciousness and create high morale in what was conceived to be an armed political vanguard are found in Cuban history. Appropriated by every Cuban political figure in the twentieth century for varying purposes, the figures and exploits of Cuba*s struggle for independence in the nineteenth century form the basis of revolutionary myths in the Rebel Army. The guerrillas also felt themselves the direct descendants of the martyrs of struggles in the 1920s and 1930s, seeing themselves in generational terms. They were the "Generation of the Centenary", marking the birth of the national hero Jose Marti; their struggle was to cumplir el deber cubano , to fulfill the Cuban duty posed by Marti. The thesis describes and analyses the development of political education in the Rebel Army by following the mili tants through the years of struggle. The assault on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, the subseguent atrocities suffered, trial, imprisonment and exile in Mexico are seen as the funda mental early experiences; later these experiences themselves were incorporated into the body of revolutionary myths. The guerrilla struggle is examined in some detail, as it too is both political education and created myth-material° Finally, the first several years of the revolution are seen as a period of formalized political education for an enlarged Rebel Army, while struggle continues to supply experience. The development of a system of political instructors and materials, the con tinuing existential sources of new myths, and the merging of Marxism-Leninism with the body of Cuban myths are themes in the last parts of the thesis. An analysis is made of the grow ing importance of anti-imperialism in the myth system, and the early materials of political education in the post-1959 period are examined. It is concluded that the original myth of national redemption merged with the myth of the Rebel Army itself, created in struggle, and with the overall Marxist vision of socialist revolution to form the basis of political education in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in the 1960s.
Author: Theodore Draper Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson ISBN: Category : Communism Languages : en Pages : 232
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A collection of three essays originally published separately; the first critically considers the "books on Cuba under Castro that appeared toward the end of 1960;" the second analyzes "the ill-fated invasion of Cuba in April, 1961"; and the third focuses on Castro and communism. - cf. Foreword.
Author: Juan M. Clark Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523712977 Category : Cuba Languages : en Pages : 0
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Professor Juan M. Clark, PhD. spent over 40 years of his life studying the Cuban Revolution and the effects it had not only in Cuba but around the world. He also conducted numerous interviews with persons who knew Fidel Castro in a personal way, his former schoolmates, guerrilla companions, even his favorite teacher. The product of all his investigations is this book, probably the most complete ever written on the man and his revolution. Cubans say that nobody will understand what living in Cuba today entails unless "you experience it". This book will give you, the reader, a clearer idea of what living in Cuba was during the first year of Castro's revolution and then through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the beginning of the XXI century. It will also give you a rare insight into Fidel Castro's personality and behavior. This book is an eye opener that will let you know who the real Fidel Castro is.
Author: C. Fred Judson
Author: C. Fred Judson
Author: Lillian Guerra
Author: Ada Ferrer
Author: Dirk Kruijt
Author: Julia Sweig![The Development of Revolutionary Myths in the Political Education of the Cuban Rebel Army, 1953-1963 [microform] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/WPC80AEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Judson, Charles Frederick
Author: Theodore Draper
Author: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Author: Juan M. Clark
Author: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.