Book Review, Cien Años de Lucha: Narratives of Cuba’s Revolutionary History

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Cien Años de Lucha: Narratives of Cuba’s Revolutionary History
by William M. LeoGrande

Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality

Lamrani Salim Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015.

The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five

Morais Fernando The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five. London: Verso, 2015.

Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape

Ritter Archibald R. M. & Henken Ted A. Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2015.

The Structure of Cuban History: Meaning and Purpose of the Past

Perez Louis A.,Jr. The Structure of Cuban History: Meaning and Purpose of the Past. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959–1979

Guerra Lillian Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959–1979. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Revolutionary Cuba: A History

Martínez-Fernández Luis Revolutionary Cuba: A History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.

“Revolution means . . . changing everything that must be changed,” said Fidel Castro on May 1, 2000. This slogan has become the watchword for the far-reaching changes under way since 2008, when Raúl Castro succeeded Fidel as president.1 In 2011 Cuba embarked upon a fundamental reorganization of the economy as outlined in the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, 2011). Then on December 17, 2014, President Castro and President Barack Obama stunned the world by announcing their agreement to begin normalizing U.S.-Cuban relations, setting aside half a century of hostility.







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