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The Taming of Fidel Castro
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- Creator
- Maurice Halperin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1981]
- Physical Details
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- x, 345 pages [1] leaf of plates : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520041844, 9780520041844
- OCLC
- ocm06487412, ocm06487412
- Continues the author's The rise and decline of Fidel Castro.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Second visit to Moscow -- First trial of Marcos Rodríguez -- Trial annulled -- Second trial: Act I -- Second trial: Act II -- Second trial: Act III -- Second trial: Act IV and epilogue -- Toward a rational economic strategy -- Great debate -- Power to disrupt -- Castro's peace offensive (I): the Eder interview -- Castro's peace offensive (II): the speech in Santiago -- Castro's peace offensive (III): rationale and response -- Hard line restored: Ché Guevara in Africa -- Agriculture and the cult of grass -- Digression: the case of Oscar Lewis -- New strategy -- Growing tensions -- Gestation and innovation -- New Communist Party -- Two revolutionary spectaculars -- Tricontinental Conference -- Great Sino-Cuban quarrel -- Concerning revisionism, Yugoslavia, and power -- Concerning money, ice cream, and dogma -- State of revolutionary consciousness -- Conflict with the Venezuelan Communist Party -- Fidel Castro and the Jews (I): before the break with Israel -- Fidel Castro and the Jews (II): 1973 and after -- "De l'Audace, Encore de l'Audace, Toujours de l'Audace" -- Death and resurrection of Ché Guevara -- Escalation of dispute: Soviet pressure and domestic treason -- "Profound Revolutionary Offensive" -- Precarious situation -- Complexities of the dilemma -- Management of the dilemma -- Dilemma resolved -- Tenth anniversary