Book Review, Between Loyalty and Legitimacy: Leadership in the Cuban Revolution

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Between Loyalty and Legitimacy: Leadership in the Cuban Revolution
by Daniel Salas-González

Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: The Unseen Story

Kapcia Antoni Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: The Unseen Story. London and Halifax/Winnipeg: Zed Books/Fernwood Publishing, 2014.

For decades, historical and political studies about revolutionary Cuba have placed the personality of Fidel Castro at the center of their interpretive approaches. This sort of narrative has blurred the understanding of the Cuban case by exaggerating the role of the “commander in chief.” In Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: The Unseen Story, the historian Antoni Kapcia challenges “the assumption that he [Fidel Castro], and he alone, created, engineered, determined and . . . perhaps distorted and destroyed the Revolution” (1).







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