A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution - Book Discussion

"Steve Cushion's book shows how rigorous scholarly work can both change the historical record and be written into an engaging narrative. One of the dogmatic myths about the Cuban Revolution is the lack of protagonism, or indeed, the marginalisation, of the Cuban working class, both in the insurrectionary movement of the 1950s and, as a consequence, ever since. Cushion refers to the role of the Cuban working class in the 1950s as a 'hidden history' and 'wonders why this story is untold, particularly as the evidence is available in the archives for any researcher who cares to look'" [1]

"Stephen Cushion’s A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution, the result of extensive archival and oral history research, is one of the most important books (in any language) on the history of the Batista regime and its opponents during the 1950s to appear in the last three or more decades. It is also an openly revisionist account that challenges much research and writing produced by both Cuban and foreign scholars." [2]

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1 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26799323
2 - https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/92/1-2/article-p126_14.xml

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