LEADER 03887nam 22005535 450 001 9910410026003321 005 20220526183041.0 010 $a3-030-46363-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-46363-2 035 $a(CKB)5280000000218504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6225714 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-46363-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)995280000000218504 100 $a20200609d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCuba in the Caribbean Cold War$b[electronic resource] $eExiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952-1959 /$fby Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 113 pages) $cmaps 225 1 $aSt Antony's Series,$x2633-5964 311 $a3-030-46362-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: The Caribbean Legion Revived -- Chapter 2. A Caribbean Cold War, 1947-1955 -- Chapter 3. The Internationalization of the Cuban Revolution, 1955-1956 -- Chapter 4. The Caribbean Legion supplying the Sierra Maestra, 1957-1958 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Demise of the Caribbean Legion, 1959-1961. 330 $aThis book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952?1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region?s dictatorships. With his research in multiple archives including those in Cuba, Prados offers a new, transnational perspective on conflicts over dictatorship and democracy, which shaped the Caribbean in the decades that followed World War II. The book traces the roots of the ?Caribbean Legion?, a transnational network of anti-dictatorial revolutionaries, before detailing how Castro and many of his allies in exile exploited this web during the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Contacts in this network provided the Cuban revolutionaries with crucial military, financial, and diplomatic support from the democratic governments of José Figueres in Costa Rica, and Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, entangling the Cuban revolutionaries in a larger regional struggle between democratic regimes and military dictatorships. This transnational involvement shaped the revolutionary regime of 1959 and had far-reaching repercussions for the larger geopolitical dynamics in the region, and for the Cold War as a whole. Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently investigating the relationship between democracy and transnational revolutionary networks operating in Latin America and the Caribbean from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s. 410 0$aSt Antony's Series,$x2633-5964 606 $aSocial history 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aLatin American History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718020 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 607 $aLatin America$xHistory 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 14$aLatin American History. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aPolitical History. 676 $a972.91064092 700 $aPrados Ortiz de Solórzano$b Nicolás$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0990596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910410026003321 996 $aCuba in the Caribbean Cold War$92266251 997 $aUNINA