Samuel Farber

Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

A Critical Assessment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Cuban Revolution's most informed and insightful historian critically assesses -- from the left -- its impact and legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781608461394
• ISBN-10: 1608461394
• Artikelnr.: 33323509

Autorenporträt

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Marianao, Cuba, and came to the United States in February 1958. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and taught at a number of colleges and universities including UCLA and, most recently, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. His scholarship on Cuba is extensive and includes many articles and two previous books: Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933?1960 (Wesleyan University Press, 1976) and The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). He is also the author of Before Stalinism. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy (Polity/Verso, 1990) and Social Decay and Transformation. A View From The Left (Lexington Books, 2000). Farber was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, and has been involved in socialist politics for more than fifty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
Chapter One - Towards "Monolithic Unity" - Building Cuban State Power from
Above.
Chapter Two - Economic Development and Standard of Living Since the 1959
Revolution.
Chapter Three - Cuba's Foreign Policy - Between Revolution and Reasons of
State.
Chapter Four - Cuban Workers After the 1959 Revolution - Ruling Class or
Exploited Class?
Chapter Five - Black Cubans - An Oppression that Dared Not Speak Its Name.
Chapter Six - Gender Politics and the Cuban Revolution.
Chapter Seven - Dissidents and Critics - From right to left.
Conclusion
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography