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\u2019s relations with Moscow\u2019s 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\u2019s five core Eastern European allies\u2014Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Hungary, and Poland\u2014and Albania, Romania, and Yugoslavia. By examining Havana\u2019s interactions with the Eastern Europeans, this account sheds new light on Cuba\u2019s place and role in the Cold War through the original interpretative lenses of socialist states\u2019 diplomatic personnel. The book contributes to the ongoing decentralization of the Cold War narrative by taking fuller account of actors\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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