The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | ISBN: 0807830011 | edition 2006 | PDF | 248 pages | 12,3 mb
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | ISBN: 0807830011 | edition 2006 | PDF | 248 pages | 12,3 mb
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.