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Sad and Luminous Days - Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Sad and Luminous Days - Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and
diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of
nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment
in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the
United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. In tracing the
developments of the missile crisis and beyond, Sad and Luminous
Days presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely
unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban
leadership in 1968. In it, Castro reflects on the crisis and
reveals the distrust and bitterness that characterized Cuban-Soviet
relations in 1968. Blight and Brenner frame the annotated speech
with an examination of the missile crisis itself, and an analysis
of Cuban-Soviet relations between 1962-1968, ending with an
epilogue that highlights the lessons the missile crisis offers us
in the current search for security and a stable world order. Sad
and Luminous Days sheds new light on Cuban-Soviet relations and
should be required reading not only for Cold-War scholars and
historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the
thirteen momentous days in October 1962.
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