James G Blight, Philip Brenner

Sad and Luminous Days

Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers After the Missile Crisis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In tracing the developments of the Cuban Missile Crisis and beyond, this book presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. Blight and Brenner shed new light on Cuban-Soviet relations making Sad and Luminous Days essential not only for Cold-War scholars and historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the thirteen momentous days in October 1962.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780742554993
• ISBN-10: 0742554996
• Artikelnr.: 22241390

Autorenporträt

By James G. Blight and Philip Brenner

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Discovery and Meaning of Fidel Castro's Secret Speech Chapter
1: The October Crisis Chapter 2: Fidel Castro's Secret Speech Chapter 3:
October/November 1962: The Shadow of the Missile Crisis Descends on Havanna
and Moscow Chapter 4: June 1967-August 1968: From the Shadow of the Missile
Crisis to the Shadow of the Future Epilogue: Cuba's Struggle with the
United States after the Missile Crisis: The Case for Realistic Empathy
Appendix A: Chronology of Events: 1963-1968 Appendix B: Text of Letter
Dated 15 November from Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba to Acting
Secretary General U Thant Appendix C: Speech Given By Major Fidel Castro
Ruz, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government and First Secretary of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Analyzing the Events
in Czechoslovakia Friday, August 23, 1968-Year of the Hero