The revolution, guided by Fidel Castro, that overthrew the Cuban Batista government in 1959, has lacked the world-wide understanding of other revolutions in history. This book explores the revolution's effects on the Cuban public and addresses the everyday realities brought about by the implementation of post-revolutionary social and economic programs.
Details the ideological, political, and strategic debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
Provides profiles of the people making today's headlines in business, education, technology, law, politics, religion, entertainment, labor, sports, medicine, and other fields.
Castro, the missile crisis, and the Soviet collapse
Blight, James G
2002
Presents an account of a 1992 conference at which representatives from Cuba--including Fidel Castro, the former Soviet Union, and the United States, met to discuss the causes and course of the Cuban Missile Conference on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary.
