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Raúl Castro and Cuba: A Military Story

✍ Scribed by Hal Klepak (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Leaves
175
Series
Studies of the Americas
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Youth, Soldier, Officer, First Command....Pages 1-13
Minister but Still a Soldier....Pages 15-45
More Thinking Required: The 1980s and the Weakening of the Soviet Connection....Pages 47-55
The Special Period for Raúl, the FAR, and Cuba....Pages 57-77
Partial Recovery and Last Years as Minister....Pages 79-90
A Military Man as President....Pages 91-119
A Revolutionary Soldier and His Revolutionary Defense System....Pages 121-137
Conclusions....Pages 139-142
Back Matter....Pages 143-161

✦ Subjects

Latin American Politics; Latin American Culture; History of the Americas; Political Science; History of Military

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