Description: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the revolution as simply a period of "Sovietization." Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense t...
Brief description: Isabel Story is Senior Lecturer in Visual Communicatoins at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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"This collection offers a sound challenge to received historical wisdom about Cuba. Most fundamentally, it is a great example of what happens to historical truths when cultural, social, and political life are examined with one lens. This is as true for Cuba in the 1970s as it is anywhere, anytime." --Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University
"A wide ranging look at all aspects of Cuba in the 1970s, a crucial inflexion point between the freewheeling revolution 'por la libre' of the 1960s and the institutionalized system that followed. Anyone interested in understanding the origins of contemporary Cuba should not miss this thoughtful assessment of an important yet often neglected decade." --William LeoGrande, American University