02367nam 22005654a 450 991082074300332120200520144314.0979-88-908782-5-00-8078-7709-3(CKB)1000000000467136(EBL)413272(OCoLC)476236618(SSID)ssj0000216487(PQKBManifestationID)11216896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216487(PQKBWorkID)10197611(PQKB)10330171(MiAaPQ)EBC413272(EXLCZ)99100000000046713620050720d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered /Samuel Farber1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (228 p.)Envisioning CubaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-3001-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-202) and index.Introduction -- The prerevolutionary economy : progress or stagnation? -- Fidel Castro and the Cuban populist tradition -- U.S. policy and the Cuban Revolution -- The driving force of the Cuban Revolution : from above or from below? -- The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban Communists -- Epilogue.Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, this book challenges scholarly views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. It states that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions.Envisioning Cuba.CubaPolitics and government1959-1990CubaHistoryRevolution, 1959CausesUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryUnited StatesRelationsCubaCubaRelationsUnited States972.9106/4Farber Samuel1939-676235MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820743003321The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered4011435UNINA