Guerra, Lillian.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Envisioning Cuba;Envisioning Cuba.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( p.[429]-444) and index.
- Introduction : Today, even Fidel is a counterrevolutionary! : excavating the grand narrative of the Cuban Revolution — The olive green revolution : media, mass rallies, agrarian reform, and the birth of the Fidelista state — Good Cubans, bad Cubans, and the trappings of revolutionary faith — War of words : laying the groundwork for radicalization — Turning the world upside down : Fidelismo as a cultural religion and national crisis as a way of life — Resistance, repression, and co-optation among the revolution’s chosen people — Class war and complicity in a grassroots dictatorship : gusanos, citizen-spies, and the early role of Cuban youth — Juventud rebelde : nonconformity, gender, and the struggle to control revolutionary youth — Self-styled revolutionaries : forgotten struggles for social change and the problem of unintended dissidence — The ofensiva revolucionaria and the zafra de los diez millones : inducing popular euphoria, fraying Fidelismo — The reel, real, and hyper-real revolution : self-representation and political performance in everyday life — Epilogue : the revolution that might have been and the revolution that was : memory, amnesia, and history.
Subjects:
- Cuba — History — Revolution, 1959 — Propaganda.
- Cuba — History — Revolution, 1959 — Public opinion.
- Cuba — History — 1959-1990.
- Press and propaganda — Cuba.
- Public opinion — Cuba.
- Social psychology — Cuba.
Requested by Towle, J.;Lansing, M.