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Author Halperin, Maurice, 1906-

Title The rise and decline of Fidel Castro : an essay in contemporary history
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1972]

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Description x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Real revolution and its roots -- Opening challenge -- Complexities and perplexities -- Cuban anomaly and the world situation -- Thorny olive branch -- Developing conflict -- Global foreign policy -- Escalation and denouement -- Prelude to the Bay of Pigs -- Fierce battle and a rare celebration -- From the military to the political arena -- Prologue to the missile crisis: Cuban-Soviet dissonance -- Political juggling in Havana, Moscow, and Peking -- Turning point in the revolution -- October crisis (I): missiles and motives -- October crisis (II): profits and losses -- October crisis (III): Cuba's psychological preparation -- October crisis (IV): aftermath in Cuba -- Prelude to reconciliation -- Fidel in the Soviet Union -- Report to the people (I): concerning Russian virtues -- Report to the people (II): concerning economics, the United States, and Khrushchev -- Report to the people (III): concerning journalism and the Soviet model of socialism -- Tenth anniversary of Moncada -- Spate of stormy weather -- Kennedy-Castro "dialogue" -- Logic of the "dialogue" -- Cuban subversion: a major card in Fidel's hand -- Intervention in Venezuela -- Culture and the revolution -- Fifth anniversary
Notes Continued by author's The domestication of Fidel Castro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.
SUBJECT Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80039693 -- Politik -- Geschichte <1959-1964>
Cuba -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034559 -- 1959-
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 1959-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034560
Cuba -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034559
Cuba -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034561 -- 1959-
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034587
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 77182794
ISBN 0520021827