Revolutionary Cuba : a history / Luis Mart�inez-Fern�andez.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-370) and index.

Part I. Idealism, 1952-1970. History will absolve me : the rebellion, 1952-1958 -- Fatherland or death! Setting the revolution's foundations, 1959-1962 -- The ten million will happen : expanding socialism, 1963-1970 -- Part II. Personalistic institutionalization, 1971-1990. We must turn the setback into victory : Sovietization, institutionalization, and the expanding Cuban diaspora, 1971-1985 -- Now we are going to build socialism : crisis and rectification, 1986-1990 -- Part III. Survival, 1991-2013. Socialism or death! The long special period, 1991-2000 -- This revolution can destroy itself : Cuba at the dawn of the new millennium, 2001-2011 -- Rectify and change ... all that should be rectified and changed : transitions, elections, and successions, 2011-2013 -- Conclusion : rewinding the threads in the labyrinth -- Epilogue : you are my friend.

"Beginning with Batista's coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and concluding with present-day transformations initiated under Ra�ul Castro, Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced analytical synthesis of all the major topics of contemporary Cuban history"--Back cover.