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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811143803321

Titolo

Cuba's forgotten decade : how the 1970s shaped the revolution / / edited by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, and Isabel Story

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-6874-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Collana

Lexington studies on Cuba series

Disciplina

972.91064

Soggetti

Cuba History 1959-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Raul's decade?, or, the first swing of the pendulum? / Antoni Kapcia -- Havana and Moscow in the 1970s : 'Sovietization' in an era of détente / Mervyn Bain -- David rising : Cuba and its northern Goliath in the 1970s / H. Michael Erisman -- Canada-Cuba relations in the 1970s / John M. Kirk -- Militarized by Moscow? : re-examining Soviet influence on Cuba in the 1970s / Anna Clayfield -- No secret cure : why the 1970s hold the mystery to Cuba's health paradox / Robert Huish -- Sexual education in the 1970s : a health-based approach / Emily J. Kirk -- Cuban women and the state : women's lives in the 1970s and the new reproductive bargain / Hope Bastian Martínez -- The 'three Ps' (perfecting, professionalization, and pragmatism) and their limitations for understanding Cuban education in the 1970s / Rosi Smith -- Is class race, and race class? : blacks, the Cuban Revolution, and the 1970s / Isaac Saney -- Black skin, red masks? : decolonization and literature in 1970s Cuba / Par Kumaraswami -- Utopian cultural construction: Cuban cultural organization in the 1970s / Isabel Story -- Cinema and culture in the 1970s : the art of autonomy / Guy Baron -- ¿Seremos (otra vez) como el Ché? : Angola as an 'alternative narrative' to Cuba in the 1970s / Raquel Ribeiro -- Within the revolution, everyone : Cuba, youth, and interrogating the 1970s paradigm / Anne Luke.

Sommario/riassunto

"Cuba's Forgotten Decade provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the



revolution as simply a period of "Sovietization." Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense transformation that proved pivotal to the development of the revolution"--