Sad and Luminous Days Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis

by Blight, James G.; Brenner, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780742522886
• ISBN10: 0742522881
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In tracing the developments of the Cuban Missile Crisis and beyond, this book presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. Blight and Brenner shed new light on Cuban-Soviet relations making Sad and Luminous Days essential not only for Cold-War scholars and historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the thirteen momentous days in October 1962.

Author Biography

James G. Blight is professor of international relations at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue: The Discovery and Meaning of Fidel Castro's Secret Speech	p. xv
The October Crisis	p. 1
Fidel Castro's Secret Speech	p. 33
October/November 1962: The Shadow of the Missile Crisis Descends on Havana and Moscow	p. 73
June 1967-August 1968: From the Shadow of the Missile Crisis to the Shadow of the Future	p. 121
Epilogue: Cuba's Struggle with the United States after the Missile Crisis: The Case for Realistic Empathy	p. 147
Chronology of Events: 1963-1968	p. 193
Text of Letter Dated 15 November from Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba to Acting Secretary General U Thant	p. 209
Speech Given by Major Fidel Castro Ruz, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Analyzing the Events in Czechoslovakia, Friday, August 23, 1968--Year of the Heroic Guerrilla	p. 215
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 315
About the Authors	p. 323
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