Our Comrades in Havana:Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Easte Europe, 1959–1991 (Cold War Inteational History Project)

by: Radoslav Yordanov (Author)

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/7/16

Language: English

Print Length: 354 pages

ISBN-10: 1503636429

ISBN-13: 9781503636422

Book Description

In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba’s inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms had deeply soured the relationship between Havana and the Soviet-led socialist bloc. While secondary literature often highlights Cuba’s political and economic relations with Washington and Moscow, Havana’s ideological, political, and economic relations with the Easte European states have received considerably less attention. This book aims to fill this gap by offering a detailed chronological account of how Cuba’s post-revolutionary development was influenced by Easte European diplomats. Outside of their roles as representatives of their respective states, Easte European diplomats were entrusted with the task of educating local Cuban leadership in the intricacies of Marxism-Leninism, steering Cuba’s goveors onto the “correct path of development,” helping them eradicate “erroneous ideas” of economic development, and showing them the validity of socialist “morals and ideology.” By considering these developments and analyzing firsthand accounts of Easte European diplomats’ experiences in Havana, historian Radoslav Yordanov reconstructs the thinking of Easte European diplomats and specialists in their dealings with Cuba from the 1959 Cuban revolutionary victory to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, shedding new light on Cuba’s role in the global Cold War.

About the Author

In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba’s inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms had deeply soured the relationship between Havana and the Soviet-led socialist bloc. While secondary literature often highlights Cuba’s political and economic relations with Washington and Moscow, Havana’s ideological, political, and economic relations with the Easte European states have received considerably less attention. This book aims to fill this gap by offering a detailed chronological account of how Cuba’s post-revolutionary development was influenced by Easte European diplomats. Outside of their roles as representatives of their respective states, Easte European diplomats were entrusted with the task of educating local Cuban leadership in the intricacies of Marxism-Leninism, steering Cuba’s goveors onto the “correct path of development,” helping them eradicate “erroneous ideas” of economic development, and showing them the validity of socialist “morals and ideology.” By considering these developments and analyzing firsthand accounts of Easte European diplomats’ experiences in Havana, historian Radoslav Yordanov reconstructs the thinking of Easte European diplomats and specialists in their dealings with Cuba from the 1959 Cuban revolutionary victory to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, shedding new light on Cuba’s role in the global Cold War.

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