Cuba Since The Revolution Of 1959: A Critical Assessment

About Samuel Farber

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Marianao Cuba and came to the United States in February 1958. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and taught at a number of colleges and universities including UCLA and most recently Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. His scholarship on Cuba is extensive and includes many articles and two previous books: Revolution and Reaction in Cuba 1933–1960 (Wesleyan University Press 1976) and The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press 2006). He is also the author of Before Stalinism. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy (Polity/Verso 1990) and Social Decay and Transformation. A View From The Left (Lexington Books 2000). Farber was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and has been involved in socialist politics for more than fifty years.