Description
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution's impact and legacy.
Author: Samuel Farber
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 12/13/2011
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781608461394
ISBN10: 1608461394
BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies | Cuba
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
About the Author
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.