Sad and luminous days
Subtitle: Cuba's struggle with the superpowers after the Missile Crisis
By: James G. Blight and Philip Brenner.
Contributors: Brenner, Philip.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Cuba; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba; Cuba -- History -- 1959-
Other titles: Sad & luminous days
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-314) index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prologue The Discovery and Meaning of Fidel Castro's Secret Speech xv; title: 1 The October Crisis 1; title: 2 Fidel Castro's Secret Speech 33; title: 3 October/November 1962: The Shadow of the Missile Crisis Descends on Havana and Moscow 73; title: 4 June l967-August 1968: From the Shadow of the Missile Crisis to the Shadow of the Future 121; title: Epilogue Cuba's Struggle with the United States after the Missile Crisis: The Case for Realistic Empathy 147; title: Appendix A Chronology of Events: 1963-1968 193; title: Appendix B Text of Letter Dated 15 November from Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba to Acting Secretary General U Thant 209; title: Appendix C Speech Given by Major Fidel Castro Ruz, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Analyzing the Events in Czechoslovakia, Friday, August 23, 1968-Year of the Heroic Guerrilla 215.