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Fidel Castro : a biography
Fidel Castro. English
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- Creator
- Volker Skierka ; translated by Patrick Camiller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780745630069, 0745630065
- OCLC
- ocm52477256
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-425) and index.
- The heroic myth -- The young Fidel -- Among Jesuits -- Among gangsters -- The young revolutionary -- Storm and stress: Moncada -- "Che", the Argentinean -- Stormy crossing on the "Granma" -- A guerrillero in the Sierra Maestra -- 321 against 10,000 -- The young victor -- Communists and "barbudos" -- 1,500 revolutionary laws -- Old enemies, new friends -- The great powers at the gates -- The CIA, the Mafia, and the Bay of Pigs -- Fidelismo -- "Mongoose" and "Anadyr"-- Thirteen days on the brink of a third world war -- Three gamblers -- The long march with Che -- Moscow, Beijing, and Havana -- The new man -- The demise of Che -- Bad times, good times -- War and peace with Moscow -- Ten million tons -- Into the Third World -- The revolution devours its children -- Alone against all -- Exodus to Florida -- Rectificacion and Perestroika -- The Soviet imperium collapses -- The brother's power -- War economy in peacetime -- The external revolutionary -- Class struggle on a dollar basis -- Cuba and the global policeman -- Castro, God, and the Pope -- Freedom or "socialismo tropical."