Cuba
Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention. |
Fidel Castro was born on August 13th, 1927. Alfred Stepan argues here that the romantic acclaim of Fidel Castro as a revolutionary guerrilla leader disregards the practical achievements and structural changes he brought to Cuba. Published in History Today, Volume: 31 Issue: 5, 1981
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Alex von Tunzelmann reassesses a two-part article on the troubled relationship between the United States and Cuba, published in History Today 50 years ago in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion. |
Michael Dunne marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba. Published in History Today
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In 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba after a masterly campaign of guerrilla warfare. Drawing on this success, Castro and his followers, including Che Guevara, sought to spread their revolution, as Clive Foss explains. |
As Fidel Castro finally hands over the reins of power after forty-nine years, Michael Simmons finds his country poised between past and future. |
John Swift examines the events that led the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. |
Fidel Castro's first, unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Cuban regime began on December 2nd, 1956. Published in History Today, Volume: 56 Issue: 12
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Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Richard Cavendish recreates the events of March 10th, 1952. |
Jim Broderick looks at the crisis management of two moments when the spectre of nuclear war shadowed relations between the superpowers. |
The United States battleship was blown up in an explosion which killed 260 men on board on February 15th, 1898. What caused the explosion and who was responsible? |
Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention. |
Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war. |
Alfred Stepan continues our series on Makers of The Twentieth Century, arguing that the romantic acclaim of Fidel Castro as a revolutionary guerrilla leader disregards the practical achievements and structural changes he has brought to Cuba and distorts his world-view of revolution. |
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