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Army Politics in Socialist Cuba*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Louis A. Perez Jr
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Many of the essential early qualities of the Cuban Revolution emanated from the experience of armed struggle. In the Sierra Maestra microcosmic features of the socialist order acquired their earliest expression, assumed recognizable form, and established the foundations upon which the radical transformation of Cuban society would proceed. The exigencies of armed struggle created a new consciousness and at once proletarianized bourgeois revolutionaries and militarized civilian combatants. The guerrilla war conferred on the revolutionary order a powerful legacy of struggle which, in its earliest forms, expressed itself most compellingly in the Rebel Army.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , May 1976 , pp. 251 - 271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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