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Fidel Castro : a biography
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Fidel Castro. English
Title
Fidel Castro : a biography / Volker Skierka ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
ISBN
0745630065 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004.
Physical Description
xxiv, 440 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-425) and index.
Contents
The heroic myth
The young Fidel
Among Jesuits
Among gangsters
The young revolutionary
Storm and stress : Moncada
"Che", the Argentinean
Stormy crossing on the Granma
A guerrillero in the Sierra Maestra
321 against 10,000
The young victor
Communists and "barbudos"
1,500 revolutionary laws
Old enemies, new friends
The great powers at the gates
The CIA, the Mafia, and the Bay of Pigs
Fidelismo
"Mongoose" and "Anadyr"
Thirteen days on the brink of a third world war
Three gamblers
The long march with Che
Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
The new man
The demise of Che
Bad times, good times
War and peace with Moscow
Ten million tons
Into the Third World
The revolution devours its children
Alone against all
Exodus to Florida
Rectificacion and perestroika
The Soviet imperium collapses
The brother's power
War economy in peacetimes
The eternal revoluntionary
Class struggle on a dollar basis
Cuba and the global policeman
Castro, God and the Pope
Freedom or "socialismo tropical"
Don Quixote and history.
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