Inside the cuban revolution council on foreign relations. Inside the cuban revolution ebook written by julia sweig. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read inside the cuban revolution. A documentary history of the united states foreign policy 19851993. The romantic image of the cuban revolution owes much to ernesto che guevara, who played up the role of fidel castros rural guerrilla fighters in toppling cuban dictator fulgencio batista. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of castros 26th of july movements underground operativesthe only scholar inside or. Dodd inside the cuban revolution confirms what many had long suspected. Fidel castro and the urban underground harvard university press, 2002 received the american historical associations herbert feis award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. Sweig, a history book divided chronologically into the prefidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the soviet union, the postcold war era, and finally the looming postfidel. Fidel castro and the urban underground kindle edition by sweig, julia.
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