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Today someone sent me email today asking for some books about Cuba that
I found useful. I was asked the same question on Marxmail back in 2002.
This was my reply:
At 02:57 PM 3/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>What do you think are the best books on the Cuban revolution
especially ones
>that can explain the political and class nature of the revolution?
>
>Daniel Baker
1. James O'Connor, "Origins of Socialism in Cuba"
2. Edward Boorstein, "Economic Transformation of Cuba"
3. Arnold August, "Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-1998 Elections"
4. Frank Fitzgerald, "The Cuban Revolution in crisis : from managing
socialism to managing survival"
5. Carlos Tablada, "Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the
Transition Period"
6. Philip Brenner, "The Cuba Reader"
7. Carolee Bengelsdorf, "Cuba in transition : crisis and transformation"
8. Margaret Randall, "Women in Cuba"
9. Maurice Zeitlin, "Revolutionary politics and the Cuban working class"
Not all of these are in print, but the first 5 on the list are
indispensable. If you want to save time, I'd track down number 6 even
though it is sadly out-of-print. Brenner was associated with NACLA when
it was radical.
I would update this list with a few new ones:
1. Richard Gott's History of Cuba
2. Ignacio Ramonet's Interviews of Fidel Castro
I should add that I plan to get back to my dissection of Sam Farber's
latest book on Cuba. Even though I have retired, I find that I tend to
bite off more than I can chew. That being said, I think it is important
for his crap to be answered. It thoroughly depresses me that young
radicals in the ISO can take this guy seriously. Here was my first
installment:
http://louisproyect.org/2013/01/04/samuel-farber-versus-the-cuban-revolution-part-one/
Finally, this is a long article I wrote on Cuba in response to a British
SWP'er on Marxmail long ago.
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm
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