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Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis

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In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the point of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was once probably the most dangerous moment in up to date history and resulted in a changed worldview for america, 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 in large part unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. In it, Castro reflects at 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 seek for security and a stable world order.

Sad and Luminous Days sheds new light on Cuban-Soviet relations and must be required reading not only for Cold-War scholars and historians, but also for somebody intrigued by the drama of the thirteen momentous days in October 1962.

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