MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF1788$b.H573 2008
082 00 $a972.9106/4$222
100 1 $aHorowitz, Irving Louis.
245 14 $aThe long night of dark intent :$ba half century of Cuban communism /$cIrving Louis Horowitz.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bTransaction Publishers,$cc2008.
263 $a0808
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1960s: guerrilla dictatorship -- The stalinization of Fidel Castro -- Castrologists and apologists: true belief in the service of false sentiment -- Cuban communism and Marxist revisionism -- The missile crisis: a decade in United States-Cuban relations -- 1970s: consolidation of communism -- United States policy toward Cuba in a Latin context -- The political sociology of Cuban communism -- Capitalism, communism and multinationalism -- The militarization of guerrilla communism -- Military origins of the Cuban revolution -- Ideological euphoria and post-revolutionary Cuba -- Authenticity and autonomy in Cuban communism -- Institutionalized militarism of Cuba -- The Cuba lobby: supplying rope to a mortgaged revolution -- Institutionalization as integration: the Cuban revolution at age twenty -- 1980s: militarization of the regime -- C. Wright Mills and listen, yankee! -- The role of Cuba in the pacification of Central America -- Fidel's "soft" stalinism -- 1990s: regionalization and retreat -- Small nation, global pretensions: Fidel Castro redux -- Revolution, longevity and legitimacy in communist states -- The dictator who would be king -- New beginnings and familiar endings -- Totalitarian options in a post-communist world -- American foreign policy toward Castro: paradox, procrastination, and paralysis -- The conscience of castrologists -- Social science as an instrument of democratic struggle -- The Cuban revolution: the myth of theory and the theory of myths -- Consequences of the American embargo -- The Jewish experience in Cuba -- Castro and the end of ideology -- Military autonomy and dependency in Castro's Cuba -- Cuban models and democratic choices -- Endless celebrations for an old dictator -- Reality avoidance and political pilgrimage -- Three points of light: long term U.S. policy responses to Cuba -- Cuba lobby upgrade: plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose -- The Cuban embargo and the American interest -- 2000s: dissolution of political power -- The two Cubas of Elian Gonzalez -- Cuba after Castro: the historical limits to dictatorship -- Humanitarian capitulation -- One hundred years of ambiguity: U.S.-Cuba relations in the 20th century -- The conflict between economy and ideology in Cuban communism -- Transition scenarios for a post-Castro cuba: speaking loudly but carrying a small -- Stick -- Castro's corn: petroleum and globalization -- Rocky shoals of reform: Castro and the caudillo -- Cuba, Castro and anti-semitism -- Semper Fidel -- From mein kampf to mi vida.
651 0 $aCuba$xPolitics and government$y1959-1990.
651 0 $aCuba$xEconomic conditions$y1959-1990.
651 0 $aCuba$xPolitics and government$y1990-
651 0 $aCuba$xEconomic conditions$y1990-
650 0 $aCommunism$zCuba.
651 0 $aCuba$xMilitary policy.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zCuba.
651 0 $aCuba$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aCuba$xSocial conditions$y1959-
651 0 $aCuba$xHistory$y20th century.