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Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational,
Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban
activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated
lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to look at their
fight against strongman rule and neocolonial control at home as
part of the international antifascism movement that exploded with
the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by multiple domestic setbacks,
including Colonel Fulgencio Batista's violent crushing of a massive
general strike, activists found strength in the face of repression
by refusing to view their political goals as confined to the
island. As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse
backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists
and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and
oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New
Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these
ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and
social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was
such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the
surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government
took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new
constitution and presidential elections.
Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational,
Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban
activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated
lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to look at their
fight against strongman rule and neocolonial control at home as
part of the international antifascism movement that exploded with
the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by multiple domestic setbacks,
including Colonel Fulgencio Batista's violent crushing of a massive
general strike, activists found strength in the face of repression
by refusing to view their political goals as confined to the
island. As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse
backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists
and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and
oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New
Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these
ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and
social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was
such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the
surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government
took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new
constitution and presidential elections.
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