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Yo Soy Fidel.
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ISBN: 9877223740 Year: 2018 Publisher: Buenos Aires : Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales,

Conversation au clair de lune
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ISBN: 2209063922 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris Messidor

Fidel's ethics of violence
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ISBN: 1849643709 9781849643702 9780745326979 0745326978 9780745326962 074532696X Year: 2007 Publisher: London Ann Arbor, MI

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Fidel Castro's most original contribution to revolutionary and radical thought has been his development of an explicit ethical position on one of the most controversial issues of our time: violence. This book explores the evolution of Castro's political thinking -- and in particular how he philosophically reconciles violence, political power and morality.This book makes a timely intervention into the question of Castro's historical role and contribution. The author argues that Castro's doctrine of armed struggle is the logical development of his idea of the ethical liberation fighter. At its core is an unremitting emphasis on the ethical use of violence.


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Women and the Cuban insurrection : how gender shaped Castro's victory
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ISBN: 1316836096 1316823377 131683252X 1107178029 1316630846 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women's multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the 'hearts and minds' of the Cuban people. Drawing on extensive, rarely-examined archives including interviews and oral histories, this author offers an entirely new interpretation of one of the Cold War's most significant events.


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The taming of Fidel Castro.
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ISBN: 0520041844 Year: 1981 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War : Exiles, Revolutionaries and Tyrants, 1952-1959
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ISBN: 303046363X 3030463621 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This 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.


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One day in December
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ISBN: 1479882593 1583673199 1583673172 9781583673195 9781479882595 9781583673171 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Monthly Review Press

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Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement and went on to choose the landing site of the Granma and fight with the rebels in the Sierra Maestra. She collected the documents that would form the official archives of the revolution, and, after its victory, launched numerous projects that enriched the lives of many Cubans, from parks to litera

Castro, the blacks, and africa
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ISBN: 0934934339 0934934320 9780934934336 Year: 1988 Volume: 8 Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Berkeley : University of California [U.C.L.A.] , Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California Press,

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