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Author Sweig, Julia.

Title Inside the Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro and the urban underground / Julia E. Sweig
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: history, mythology, and revolution -- "Tactics in politics and tactics in revolution are not the same" -- The Sierra Manifesto -- "We had to act a bit dictatorially" -- Defining opposition unity on the ground -- Fear and loathing in Miami -- Taming the politiqueros in exile -- With friends like these, who needs enemies? -- Total war? -- The Golden Age of the Llano -- The arms race -- Politics and popular insurrection -- "Bordering on chaos" -- Picking up the pieces -- Unity: "Like a magic word" -- The Pact of Caracas -- Hasta La Victoria! -- Epilogue: transitions then and now
Summary "In a close study of the fifteen months from November 1956 to July 1958, when the urban underground leadership was dominant, Sweig examines the debate between the two groups over whether to wage guerrilla warfare in the countryside or armed insurrection in the cities, and is the first to document the extent of Castro's cooperation with the llano. She unveils the essential role of the urban underground, led by such figures as Frank Pais, Armando Hart, Haydee Santamaria, Enrique Oltuski, and Faustino Perez, in controlling critical decisions on tactics, strategy, allocation of resources, and relations with opposition forces, political parties, Cuban exiles, even the United States - contradicting the standard view of Castro as the primary decision maker during the revolution."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index
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Subject Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 -- Relations with revolutionaries
SUBJECT Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 fast
Subject Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio
SUBJECT Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio fast
Subject Revolutionaries -- Cuba -- Attitudes
Guerrillas -- Cuba -- Attitudes
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Relations with revolutionaries
Revolutionaries -- Attitudes
War -- Underground movements
Revoluties.
Ondergrondse organisaties.
SUBJECT Cuba -- History -- 1933-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034583
Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Underground movements
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674044193
9780674044197
Other Titles Cuban Revolution