Inside the Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro and the urban underground
"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
Print Book, English, 2002
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002
History
xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674008489, 9780674016125, 0674008480, 0674016122
48857627
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
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