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Cuba's Forgotten Decade : How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lexington Studies on Cuba SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498568746
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cuba's Forgotten DecadeDDC classification:
  • 972.91064
LOC classification:
  • F1788 .C833 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Section One: Politics and International Relations -- 1 Raúl's Decade? Or the First Swing of the Pendulum? -- 2 Havana and Moscow in the 1970s -- 3 David Rising -- 4 Canada-Cuba Relations in the 1970s -- 5 Militarized by Moscow? -- Section Two: Healthcare and Education -- 6 No Secret Cure -- 7 Sexual Education in the 1970s -- 8 Cuban Women and the State -- 9 The "Three Ps" (Perfecting, Professionalization, and Pragmatism) and their Limitations for Understanding Cuban Education in the 1970s -- 10 Is Class Race, and Race Class? -- Section Three: Culture -- 11 Black Skin, Red Masks? -- 12 Utopian Cultural Construction -- 13 Cinema and Culture in the 1970s -- 14 "Seremos (otra vez) como el Che"? -- 15 Within the Revolution, Everyone -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the revolution as simply a period of "Sovietization." Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense transformation that proved pivotal to the development of the revolution.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Section One: Politics and International Relations -- 1 Raúl's Decade? Or the First Swing of the Pendulum? -- 2 Havana and Moscow in the 1970s -- 3 David Rising -- 4 Canada-Cuba Relations in the 1970s -- 5 Militarized by Moscow? -- Section Two: Healthcare and Education -- 6 No Secret Cure -- 7 Sexual Education in the 1970s -- 8 Cuban Women and the State -- 9 The "Three Ps" (Perfecting, Professionalization, and Pragmatism) and their Limitations for Understanding Cuban Education in the 1970s -- 10 Is Class Race, and Race Class? -- Section Three: Culture -- 11 Black Skin, Red Masks? -- 12 Utopian Cultural Construction -- 13 Cinema and Culture in the 1970s -- 14 "Seremos (otra vez) como el Che"? -- 15 Within the Revolution, Everyone -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the revolution as simply a period of "Sovietization." Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense transformation that proved pivotal to the development of the revolution.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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