Description: Patriots & Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1, Hardcover by Guerra, Lillian, ISBN 0822947730, ISBN-13 9780822947738, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 adopted the theme song "patria y vida" (fatherland and life), a collaboration by exiles that, predictably, has been banned in Cuba itself. Lillian Guerra excavates the rise of a Soviet-advised Communist culture controlled by state institutions and the creation of a multidimensional system of state security whose functions embedded themselves into daily activities and individual consciousness and reinforced these binaries. But despite public performance of patriotism, the life experience of many Cubans was somewhere in between. Guerra explores these in-between spaces and looks at Cuban citizens' complicity with authoritarianism, leaders' exploitation of an earnest anti-imperialist nationalism, and the duality of an existence thatcontains elements of both support and betrayal of a nation and of an ideology"--
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Book Title: Patriots & Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981
Number of Pages: 508 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba : 1961-1981
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: History
Author: Lillian Guerra
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Pitt Latin American Ser.
Format: Hardcover
