The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered by Samuel Farber
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Textbook (Paperback - New Edition)
- 232pp
- Sales Rank: 429,715
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- ISBN-13: 9780807856734
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: March 2006
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2006
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 232pp
- Sales Rank: 429,715
- Series: Envisioning Cuba Series
- ISBN-13: 9780807856734
- ISBN: 0807856738
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
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Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents, Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the Cuban 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.
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Samuel Farber is professor of political science at Brooklyn College and author of three previous books, including Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960: A Political Sociology from Machado to Castro.
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Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsideredby Anonymous
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September 22, 2006: This an outstanding book that justifiably attacks the Cuban Revolutionary leaders and their willingness to stop at nothing to gain power. Farber is on track, this revolution was a disaster for us and we were better off under Batista. This is a must-read for anyone in exile and provides hope that someday we will get our land back and retake democratic power and work with corporations cooperatively. Workers in Cuba have it too good today. Thank you Dr. Farber for a wonderful book! I didn't expect this from you.
Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsideredby Anonymous
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August 11, 2006: This book claims to be based on new archival material now available, which provides evidence of the democratic and transparent nature of the Cuban State. Just like capitalism offers a range of permutations so does socialism and democracy. This book examines power struggles during the formative years of the Cuban revolution. Social revolutions are not reversible by a group of cronies operating in leadership positions while they may have some influence over the course of the transformation, Cuba's experience must be put into context from the initial colonization, emergence as an entrepot of Spain and then U.S and the revolutionary years. The survival of Cuban Communism, as Richard Gott observes, is not through repression but a general appreciation for equality and what may be called democracy, Cuban style. This book does not provide an adequate explanation as to why the socialist ideals and support for the government outlasted the fall of the USSR and the special period.
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