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1933 Cuban Revolution
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anarchism
antifascism
Author_Ariel Mae Lambe
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Communism
Cuba
Cuban nationalism
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fascism
Francisco Franco
Fulgencio Batista
Gerardo Machado
International Brigades
Italo-Ethiopian War
pan-Africanism
popular politics
Ramon Grau San Martin
socialism
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Second Republic
transnational activism
transnational solidarity
Trotskyism
Product details
- ISBN 9781469652849
- Weight: 677g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull. In this period, many Cuban activists began to look at their fight against strongman rule and neocolonial control at home as part of the international antifascism movement that exploded with the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by multiple domestic setbacks, including Colonel Fulgencio Batista's violent crushing of a massive general strike, activists found strength in the face of repression by refusing to view their political goals as confined to the island.
As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new constitution and presidential elections.
As individuals and in groups, Cubans from diverse backgrounds and political stances self-identified as antifascists and moved, both physically and symbolically, across borders and oceans, cultivating networks and building solidarity for a New Spain and a New Cuba. They believed that it was through these ostensibly foreign fights that they would achieve economic and social progress for their nation. Indeed, Cuban antifascism was such a strong movement, Lambe argues, that it helps to explain the surprisingly progressive turn that Batista and the Cuban government took at the end of the decade, including the establishment of a new constitution and presidential elections.
Ariel Mae Lambe is assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut.
