„Our Comrades in Havana. Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991“ – Radoslav Yordanov

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Using the Soviet-Cuban economic, political, military, and intelligence ties as a basis for analysis, this book aims to break new ground by more prominently factoring in Havana’s relations with Moscow’s Eastern European allies. The book uses an extensive range of material obtained from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, MINREX) and party, security, and foreign ministry archives of the Soviet Union’s five core Eastern European allies—Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Hungary, and Poland—and Albania, Romania, and Yugoslavia. By examining Havana’s interactions with the Eastern Europeans, this account sheds new light on Cuba’s place and role in the Cold War through the original interpretative lenses of socialist states’ diplomatic personnel. The book contributes to the ongoing decentralization of the Cold War narrative by taking fuller account of actors’ voices previously considered unimportant in East-West rivalry. Its framework of analysis is applied chronologically, starting with the initial stages of Soviet bloc relations with Cuba, from the arrival of the revolutionary army in January 1959 until the disbanding of the Soviet Union and the CMEA in 1991.

Table of Contents 

  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface: From the Outskirts of Sofia to the Center of Havana
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Map of Cuba
  • Introduction—Revolutionary Cuba and the Special Mission of Socialist Diplomacy
  • 1.Castro, Moscow, and Eastern Europe during the Revolution (1959–1962)
  • 2.The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962
  • 3.Parting Ways in the Short 1960s (1963–1968)
  • 4.On the Road to Forgiveness (1969–1972)
  • 5.The East and Cuba’s Socialist Institutionalization (1972–1980)
  • 6.Cuba’s World Order as Seen from Berlin to Sofia (1975–1980)
  • 7.Clouds Gather over Havana in the Early 1980s
  • 8.Into the Central American Turmoil (July 1979–October 1983)
  • 9.Arming Cuba for the War of All the People (1980–1985)
  • 10.The Slow Showdown (1985–1991)
  • Conclusion: Chronicling the Cuba-East Modus Convivendi
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Published in July 2024

ISBN 978-1503636422

354p

Opširnije: https://www.sup.org/books/history/our-comrades-havana/excerpts 

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