The long night of dark intent
Subtitle: a half century of Cuban communism
By: Irving Louis Horowitz.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9781412808057
Subjects: Communism -- Cuba; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990; Cuba -- Economic conditions -- 1959-1990; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1990-; Cuba -- Economic conditions -- 1990-; Cuba -- Military policy; United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States; Cuba -- Social conditions -- 1959-; Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1960s: guerrilla dictatorship; title: The stalinization of Fidel Castro; title: Castrologists and apologists: true belief in the service of false sentiment; title: Cuban communism and Marxist revisionism; title: The missile crisis: a decade in United States-Cuban relations; title: 1970s: consolidation of communism; title: United States policy toward Cuba in a Latin context; title: The political sociology of Cuban communism; title: Capitalism, communism and multinationalism; title: The militarization of guerrilla communism; title: Military origins of the Cuban revolution; title: Ideological euphoria and post-revolutionary Cuba; title: Authenticity and autonomy in Cuban communism; title: Institutionalized militarism of Cuba; title: The Cuba lobby: supplying rope to a mortgaged revolution; title: Institutionalization as integration: the Cuban revolution at age twenty; title: 1980s: militarization of the regime; title: C. Wright Mills and listen, yankee!; title: The role of Cuba in the pacification of Central America; title: Fidel's "soft" stalinism; title: 1990s: regionalization and retreat; title: Small nation, global pretensions: Fidel Castro redux; title: Revolution, longevity and legitimacy in communist states; title: The dictator who would be king; title: New beginnings and familiar endings; title: Totalitarian options in a post-communist world; title: American foreign policy toward Castro: paradox, procrastination, and paralysis; title: The conscience of castrologists; title: Social science as an instrument of democratic struggle; title: The Cuban revolution: the myth of theory and the theory of myths; title: Consequences of the American embargo; title: The Jewish experience in Cuba; title: Castro and the end of ideology; title: Military autonomy and dependency in Castro's Cuba; title: Cuban models and democratic choices; title: Endless celebrations for an old dictator; title: Reality avoidance and political pilgrimage; title: Three points of light: long term U.S. policy responses to Cuba; title: Cuba lobby upgrade: plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose; title: The Cuban embargo and the American interest; title: 2000s: dissolution of political power; title: The two Cubas of Elian Gonzalez; title: Cuba after Castro: the historical limits to dictatorship; title: Humanitarian capitulation; title: One hundred years of ambiguity: U.S.-Cuba relations in the 20th century; title: The conflict between economy and ideology in Cuban communism; title: Transition scenarios for a post-Castro cuba: speaking loudly but carrying a small; title: Stick; title: Castro's corn: petroleum and globalization; title: Rocky shoals of reform: Castro and the caudillo; title: Cuba, Castro and anti-semitism; title: Semper Fidel; title: From mein kampf to mi vida.