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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Paperback, New edition)
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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Envisioning Cuba
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Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to
1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views
of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory.
Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as
having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic
conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting
under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents
pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not
necessarily according to a master plan. Exploring how historical
conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of
both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista,
Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in
the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for
radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union
was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of
recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as
biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on
three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved
from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged
social revolution.
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