Friday, July 29, 2022

Cuba: Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966

Suárez, Andrés, Cuba: Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1967.

Reviewed in The American Historical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, June 1968.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review (1969).

Cuba: Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966 surveys the course of events in Cuba from early revolutionary days to the complicated middle-sixties split in the international Communist camp. In this study, Andrés Suárez investigates some of the most fascinating questions about Cuba, and some of the most useful: Where did the Cuban revolution originate? Why did Castro choose an affiliation with the Soviet Union? What is Castro's present strategy in managing his regime and in directing his pas de deux with the Soviets? The book is based on reports in the contemporary Cuban press and on the author's personal experience as a member of the struggle against Batista and as an officer of the Cuban revolutionary government for almost two years.

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