Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one-dimensionally. It is high time for a more balanced approach to the subject - a critical, left-wing approach. Having grown up in Cuba in the 1950s, Samuel Farber is one of the only left-wing historians who is not enamoured the Cuban Revolution, but sees it in all its complexity. Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959 thus takes a fresh approach to the political legacy of the Cuban Revolution, analysing both its positive and negative implications for the left.

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. His scholarship on Cuba includes two previous books: Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960and Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered.