TY  - BOOK
AU  - Draper,Theodore
TI  - Castro's revolution: myths and realities 
AV  - F1788 .C378 1966
PY  - 1962///, 1969
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Communism
KW  - Cuba
N1  - The two revolutions --; How not to overthrow Castro --; Castro and Communism --; Appendix two:  A letter to the new left review --; Appendix two:  An exchange of letters between Herbert L. Matthews and Theodore Draper --; Appendix three:  L'Affaire Escalante; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - "This is a lucid, brilliantly argued interpretation of the whole Fidel Castro phenomenon.  With piercing documentation, it attacks those books and articles which have seen Castro as the leader of a peasant revolution whose seeming links with Russian Communism must be doubtfully regarded" (Newsweek).  The mythmakers Theodore Draper examines include Jean-Paul Sartre, C. Wright Mills, Leo Huberman and Paul M. Sweezy, and Nathaniel Weyl.  It is Mr. Draper's own view that the Cuban revolution is a peculiar "variant" in the "Communist family of revolutions."; The second section focuses on the ill-fated invasion of April 1961.  Tracing the factional struggles among both the Cuban refugees and the U.S. policy-makers, he illuminates the background and repercussions of the venture. In the final part, Mr. Draper appraises the present course of the revolution.  Focusing on Castro's open avowal of "Marxism-Leninism," he analyzes the full text of this pivotal declaration
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