Patriots and traitors in revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981 /

"Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan "patria o muerte" (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in protests that have adop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guerra, Lillian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]
Series:Pitt Latin American series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Lessons in loving the revolution : political education, violence, and the 1961 Literacy Campaign
  • Securing the state, 1961-1966 : fear, surveillance, and national liberation
  • The generous revolution : rehabilitation, political prisoners, and coercive inclusion in the 1960s
  • The "anti-revolution" of the late 1960s : reeducation, integration, and everyday authoritarianism
  • Young Communists, former slum dwellers, and the Lewis Project in Cuba, 1968-1972
  • Labor, the pedagogy of love, and Cuba's child revolutionaries, 1968-1972
  • Los anos rojos (The red years) : Cuba in the 1970s
  • The road to El Mariel : perfectionism, alienation, exhaustion, and the New Man
  • "We are happy here" : amplifying the revolutionary script and the crisis of El Mariel
  • Epilogue: The paradigm of patriots and traitors revisited : exodus as opposition and the uncertain future of democracy lost.