Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 (Review)

Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 (Review)

Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary relations with its ...
Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (Review)

Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (Review)

Paloma Duong's book explores Cuba's changing media landscape's effect on local and global perceptions of the country by analyzing popular ...
On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle (Review)

On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle (Review)

The recent book by Noam Chomsky and Vishay Prashad provides a critical analysis of the U.S. empire’s treatment of Cuba, ...
Remembering Elizabeth Dore (1946-2022)

Remembering Elizabeth Dore (1946-2022)

Remembering a longtime historian of Latin America who gave voice to ordinary people ...
Letters to Eloísa (Review)

Letters to Eloísa (Review)

A new PBS documentary explores the life and career of literary figure José Lezama Lima in revolutionary Cuba ...
Using Cuba's Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left

Using Cuba’s Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left

Viewpoint: The recent protests in Cuba provoked a predictable slew of blanket denunciations of "the Left." But we can't understand ...
Cuba's Crisis, Our Response

Cuba’s Crisis, Our Response

Viewpoint: With Cuba at a crossroads, we must respond to recent protests by listening to the Cuban people and recognizing ...
The Monte de las Banderas (Wall of Flags) monument in Havana, Cuba. ( Indi and Rani Soemardjan, Flickr)

“Don’t Throw the Sofa out the Window” Discussing Protests in Cuba

Viewpoint: Refusing to accept the complexity and plural nature of protests in Cuba means giving away half the playing field ...