Leadership in the Cuban Revolution : the unseen story / / Antoni Kapcia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821198303321
• Autore: Kapcia Antoni
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-350-22107-4; 1-78032-528-2; 1-322-09797-6; 1-78032-526-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 321.0
• Soggetti: Revolutionaries - Cuba; Political leadership - Cuba - History - 20th century; Politics & government; Cuba History Revolution, 1959 Biography; Cuba Politics and government 1933-1959; Cuba Politics and government 1959-1990
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Spanish Terms; Stylistic Notes; Introduction: The Problem With 'fidel-centrism'; Classic assumptions: personality cults, coercion and the military; The state and the monolith?; Debate; 1 The Core Leadership: The Familiar Triumvirate; Fidel Castro; Che Guevara; Raúl Castro; Conclusion; 2 The Formation of 'The Vanguard': 1953-58; 3 Taking Stock and Finding Direction: 1959-62; External and internal pressures on Cuba; Understanding divisions; Early unity; The rebel alliance of 1959; The 26 July Movement and the PSPHidden government?; The battles within the CTC; The 'Escalante affair'; The early 'inner circle' and its historic 'core'; Ex-guerrillas and the military; Leading veterans?; Women in the inner circle; The Llano; The PSP after 1959; The Directorio Revolucionario; 'Independent' radicals; The apostates; Inner and outer ; circles; 4 The Years of 'Revolutionary' Flux: 1963-75; The changing state; The new radicalism; The new inner circle; The intermediate and outer circles; 5 The Stable Years: Systems, Institutions and Bureaucrats: 1975-86; Contested institutionalisationReturn of the PSP?; The changing world and changing Cuba in the 1980s: a new crisis; Changes to the circles of power; 6 The Return of Fluidity: 1986 to the Present; Explaining 'Rectification'; The Third Party Congress of 1986; The 1989-94 crisis and economic and political reform; The changing state and the changing inner circle; Reflections on the changing circles; 7 Inclusion and Exclusion: 'Within' and 'Against' the Revolution; Cuban history and the evolution of a culture of inclusion; The creation of a sense of 'us' and 'them' after 1959; Defining 'inside' and 'against' the RevolutionThe role and nature of debate; 8 Inclusion and Collectivity: A Revolutionary Corporatism?; Seeking paradigms; Corporatism; A post-colonial corporatism?; The colonial binary of 'problem' and 'solution'; The imperative of nation-building; The Cuban case; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation