Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution

Understanding the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961)
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41571-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 161/12, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies

The book makes accessible a selection of speeches and television appearances by Fidel Castro during the first two years of the Cuban Revolution. Readers can trace the evolution of this legendary leader’s radical political thought and analyze his extraordinary capacity for overcoming adverse political and ideological circumstances in a constant movement towards a socialist ideal. The work is organized chronologically with introductory presentations prepared by Cuban experts José Bell, Tania Caram and Delia Luisa López and includes a glossary and bibliography. The methodology of this work is original and includes material from 1959 not previously published elsewhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell Lara, José

Caram León, Tania

López García, Delia Luisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Translator’s Note xii

Charles McKelvey

Introduction

José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

Historical Context

José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

Part 1: 1959: Year of Liberation

Introduction to 1959: “Year of Liberation”

José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

Call to Revolutionary General Strike

The Revolution Begins Now

To Speak the Truth Is the First Duty of All Revolutionaries

We are Revolutionaries Making a Revolution, Revolutionaries in Power!

To Live on Our Knees, Why?

This Law Initiates an Entirely New Stage in Our Economic Life and a Magnificent Future Awaits Our Country

The Cuban People Is an Invincible People

In Cuba, There is a Democracy Where the People Discuss Their Problems Directly

The Entire Nation Stands without Fear

The Working Class and the Cuban Revolution

We have Kept Our Promises to the People

Part 2:

Introduction to 1960: “Year of Agrarian Reform”

José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

The Revolution Converts Barracks into Schools

The Future of Our Country Necessarily has to Be a Future of Men of Science and Thought

The Choice is Patria o Muerte

Democracy Is This

The Slogan for the People Is: Venceremos!

Latin America Does Not Have the Right to Make a Revolution

Women, the Decisive Factor in the Revolution

Declaration of Havana

Speech in the General Assembly of the United Nations

We Are Going to Establish a System of Collective Revolutionary Watch

The Moncada Program Has been Carried Out

Part 3:

Introduction to 1961: “Year of Education”

José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

The Revolution Is a Struggle to the Death between the Future and the Past

What the Imperialists Cannot Forgive

Communiques from the Battle at Playa Girón

At Playa Girón, the Country for All has Triumphed

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

José Bell Lara is Professor and Consultant of the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). He has authored and co-authored numerous texts about Cuba and Latin America, including those in the series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria 1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial.

Tania Caram León is a Professor at the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). She has published several texts about Cuban women and has co-authored works in the editorial series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial.

Delia Luisa López García is Professor Emeritus of the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). She has published several texts on Cuba and Latin America and has co-authored works in the editorial series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria 1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial.