The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Envisioning Cuba)

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Analyzing the a very powerful 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, whilst acting under serious constraints, were on the other hand autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, even if 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 once on hand to provide early assistance. Making the most of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents in addition to biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber specializes in three key years to give an explanation for how the Cuban rebellion swiftly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution.

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