The Cuban Revolution and Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781032130057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 372 str.

Boris Goldenberg

Opis

This book, first published in 1965, is a scrupulously fair study of the origins and evolution of Castroism and an assessment of the impact of the Cuban revolution and of Castro’s subsequent domestic and foreign policies on the rest of Latin America.

Spis treści

Part 1. Latin America: A Continent in Ferment  1. Introduction  2. Underdevelopment  3. ‘Misdevelopment’ and ‘Imperialism’  4. Problems of the Latin American Economy  5. Latin American Society: A Glance Through a Kaleidoscope  6. Remarks About the Latin American State  7. Militarism and Catholicism in Latin America  8. The Intellectuals  9. Latin American Revolutions Before Castro  Part 2. Background of the Revolution in Cuba  10. The Historic Roots of the Cuban Revolution  11. Cuba’s Economy and Society  12. Castro’s Road to Power  Part 3. The Development of the Cuban Revolution  13. The Honeymoon of the Revolution  14. The Emergence of Contradictions  15. The Road to Socialism  16. Achievements of the Revolution 1959–61  17. Opposition and Invasion  18. Towards Normalisation of the Cuban Revolution  19. The Year 1962: Unplanned Events in the Year of Planning  20. 1963: At the Threshold of Socialist Construction  21. After Five Years: Past and Future  22. Analysis of the Cuban Revolution  Part 4. The Struggle for Latin America  23. The Impact of Castro  24. The United States Between Monroe and Moscow  25. 1962–63: Years of Indecision  26. Reform or Revolution

O autorze

Boris Goldenberg