Origins of the Cuban Revolution

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Primary Sources

Fulgencio Batista, Cuba Betrayed, (1962)

Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet, My Life, (2006)

Earl E.T. Smith, The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution, (1962)

Che Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, (2013)

Andrei Gromyko, Memoirs, (1989)

Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, (1970)

Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, Volumes I & II, (1948)

Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions (1955)

Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and Hope (1956)

Dwight Eisenhower, Waging Peace: The White House Years, A Personal Account 1956-1961, (1965)

Secondary Sources

Ada Ferrer, An American History of Cuba, (2021)

Peter G. Bourne, Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro, (1986)

Marshall Eakin, The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures, (2007)

John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, (2006)

Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, (1961)

Theodore Draper, Castro's Revolution; Myths and Realities, (1962)

Samuel Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, (2006)

William Ratliff, editor, The Selling of Fidel Castro: The Media and the Cuban Revolution, (1987)

Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, (1984)

Thomas Skidmore, Peter Smith, James Green, Modern Latin America: Eighth Edition, (2014)

Footnotes

[1] Chasteen, p. 203

[2] Ferrer, p. 185-8, Draper, p. 21-3

[3] Wood, p. 48-57

[4] Ferrer, p. 228-31

[5] Wood, p. 59-69, Ferrer, p. 235-8

[6] Ferrer, 242-4

[7] Hull, p. 315, Ferrer, p. 239-42, Wood, p. 81-7

[8] Ferrer, p. 244-9

[9] Ferrer, p. 24958,

[10] Gromyko, p. 83

[11] Bourne, p. 35

[12] Bourne, p. 33-6

[13] Ferrer, 264-9

[14] Castro, p. 85-6

[15] Ferrer, p. 270-1, Bourne, 64-7

[16] Skidmore, p. 1157, Draper, p. 213, Farber, p. 78,

[17] Bourne, p. 65-9

[18] Eakin, p. 308-11, Ferrer, p. 277-82

[19] Bourne, p. 33-6, Smith, p. 40

[20] Castro, p. 89, Bourne, p. 56-8

[21] Bourne, p. 39-42

[22] Chasteen, p. 264-8, Bourne, p. 45-9, Smith, p. 67-8

[23] Bourne, p. 39-42, 62-4

[24] Bourne, p. 71-2, Castro, p. 104-5

[25] Bourne, p. 71-2, Ferrer, p. 277-82, Castro, p. 105-10

[26] Castro, p. 112-4

[27] Bourne, p. 71-2, 75-9

[28] Castro, p. 121-5, Bourne, p. 80-4, Ferrer, p. 277-82

[29] Bourne, p. 85-8

[30] Eakin, p. 308-1, Bourne, p. 90-4, 103

[31] Bourne, p. 90-4, 103-4, Batista, ch. 1-2

[32] Ferrer, p. 289-93

[33] Bourne, p. 104-11

[34] Eakin, p. 308-11, Bourne, p. 111-7, 123-6

[35] Ferrer, 293-8

[36] Eakin, p. 308-11, Bourne, p. 121-6

[37] Bourne, p. 123-30, Batista, ch. 4

[38] Draper, p. 11-3, Bourne, p. 130-3

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