Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940

State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940

Whitney, Robert

Paperback

Series: Envisioning Cuba

Caribbean HistoryGeneral Political ScienceHistoriography

ISBN10: 0807849251
ISBN13: 9780807849255
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 28 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on the revolution of 1959. With this book, Robert Whitney accords much-needed attention to a critical stage in Cuban history.

Closely examining the upheavals of the period, which included a social revolution in 1933 and a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista one year later, Whitney argues that the eventual rise of a more democratic form of government came about primarily because of the mass mobilization by the popular classes against oligarchic capitalism, which was based on historically elite status rather than on a modern sense of nation. Although from the 1920s to the 1940s politicians and political activists were bitterly divided over what popular and modern state power meant, this new generation of politicians shared the idea that a modern state should produce a new and democratic Cuba.

Also in

Caribbean History

View All