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Sad and Luminous Days - Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed) Loot Price: R2,522
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Sad and Luminous Days - Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): James G....

Sad and Luminous Days - Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

James G. Blight, Philip Brenner

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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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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2002
First published: September 2002
Authors: James G. Blight • Philip Brenner
Dimensions: 241 x 161 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Edition: Annotated Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2288-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 0-7425-2288-1
Barcode: 9780742522886

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