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Author Guerra, Lillian.
Title Visions of power in Cuba : revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971 / Lillian Guerra.
Imprint Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Description xvi, 467 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
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Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-444) and index.
Contents Introduction : "Today, even Fidel is a counterrevolutionary!" : excavating the grand narrative of the Cuban Revolution -- The olive green revolution : media, mass rallies, agrarian reform, and the birth of the Fidelista state -- Good Cubans, bad Cubans, and the trappings of revolutionary faith -- War of words : laying the groundwork for radicalization -- Turning the world upside down : Fidelismo as a cultural religion and national crisis as a way of life -- Resistance, repression, and co-optation among the revolution's chosen people -- Class war and complicity in a grassroots dictatorship : gusanos, citizen-spies, and the early role of Cuban youth -- Juventud rebelde : nonconformity, gender, and the struggle to control revolutionary youth -- Self-styled revolutionaries : forgotten struggles for social change and the problem of unintended dissidence -- The ofensiva revolucionaria and the zafra de los diez millones : inducing popular euphoria, fraying Fidelismo -- The reel, real, and hyper-real revolution : self-representation and political performance in everyday life -- Epilogue : the revolution that might have been and the revolution that was : memory, amnesia, and history.
Subject Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Propaganda.
Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Public opinion.
Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.
Press and propaganda -- Cuba.
Public opinion -- Cuba.
Social psychology -- Cuba.
ISBN 9780807835630 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807835633 (cloth : alk. paper)
Control No. ocn775898093
LCCN 2012004090