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Author(s): Irving Horowitz
ISBN(s): 9781412808798, 1412808790
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.65 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1412808790 
ISBN 13: 9781412808798
Author: Irving Horowitz

The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere.For more than a half century since then Cuba has been defined by the capacity of a single family to command and determine the fate of a nation and to do so with a minimum of opposition. Incredibly, even those professing adhesion to democratic norms have been ready to forgive the dictator his excesses. This volume explains the theory and practice of this absence of internal opposition and the persistence of external support for the Castro family and its entourage.The Long Night of Dark Intent is chronological in order, with the author indicating major points in each of the five decades covered. The volume covers five centers of system analysis: economics, politics, society, military, and ideology. Who or what “determines” events and decisions is the stuff of real history. It is precisely due to variability in causal chains in society that we have huge variance in levels of predictability. The course of the Cuban Revolution gives strong support for such an approach to the Castro Era. This is a unique, unflinching account with a strong emphasis on the importance of U.S. policy decisions over time.

The Long Night of Dark Intent A Half Century of Cuban Communism 1st Table of contents:

1960s: Guerrilla Dictatorship
1 The Stalinization of Fidel Castro
2 Castrologists and Apologists: True Belief in the Service of False Sentiment
3 Cuban Communism and Marxist Revisionism
4 The Missile Crisis: A Decade in United States-Cuban Relations
1970s: Consolidation of Communism
5 United States Policy toward Cuba in a Latin Context
6 Capitalism, Communism, and Multinationalism
7 The Militarization of Guerrilla Communism
8 Military Origins of the Cuban Revolution
9 Ideological Euphoria and Post-Revolutionary Cuba
10 Authenticity and Autonomy in Cuban Communism
11 Institutionalized Militarism of Cuba
12 The Cuba Lobby: Supplying Rope to a Mortgaged Revolution
13 Institutionalization as Integration: The Cuban Revolution at Age Twenty
1980s: Militarization of the Regime
14 C. Wright Mills and Listen, Yankee
15 The Role of Cuba in the Pacification of Central America
16 Fidel’s “Soft” Stalinism
1990s: Regionalization and Retreat
17 Small Nation, Global Pretensions: Fidel Castro Redux
18 Revolution, Longevity, and Legitimacy in Communist States
19 The Dictator Who Would Be King
20 New Beginnings and Familiar Endings
21 Totalitarian Options in a Post-Communist World
22 American Foreign Policy toward Castro: Paradox, Procrastination, and Paralysis
23 The Conscience of Castrologists
24 Social Science as an Instrument of Democratic
25 The Cuban Revolution: The Myth of Theory and the Theory of Myths
26 Consequences of the American Embargo
27 On Socialist Economics and Communist Politics
28 The Jewish Experience in Cuba
29 Castro and the End of Ideology
30 Military Autonomy and Dependency in Castro’s Cuba
31 Cuban Models and Democratic Choices
32 Endless Celebrations for an Old Dictator
33 Reality Avoidance and Political Pilgrimage
34 Three Points of Light: Long Term U.S. Policy Responses to Cuba
35 Cuba Lobby Upgrade: Plus ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose
36 The Cuban Embargo and the American Interest
2000s: Dissolution of Political Power
37 The Two Cubas of Elián González
38 Cuba after Castro: The Historical Limits to Dictatorship
39 Humanitarian Capitulation
40 One Hundred Years of Ambiguity: U.S.-Cuba Relations in the 20th Century
41 The Conflict between Economy and Ideology in Cuban Communism
42 Transition Scenarios for a Post-Castro Cuba: Speaking Loudly but Carrying a Small Stick
43 Castro’s Corn: Petroleum and Globalization
44 Rocky Shoals of Reform: Castro and the Caudillo
45 Cuba, Castro, and Anti-Semitism
46 Semper Fidel
47 Mi Vida: The Manichean Face of Dictatorship

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