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Medin, Tzvi

Cuba : The Shaping of Revolutionary Consciousness / Tzvi Medin. - 1 online resource (192 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Consciousness and the Essence of the Revolutionary Message -- 1 On the Necessity of Shaping a Revolutionary Consciousness -- 2 The Essential Context: Existence as Confrontation and Heroism -- 3 The Basic Manicheism of the Revolutionary Message -- 4 Marxism-Leninism and Cuban Nationalism -- II Channels of Projection -- 5 Education -- 6 The Cinema -- 7 Detective Fiction -- 8 Poetry -- 9 Popular Music -- 10 The Theater -- 11 The Testimonial Genre and Some of Its Artistic Manifestations -- 12 The Revolutionary Armed Forces -- 13 Mass Organizations and the Vanguard Party -- III Conclusions -- 14 Final Reflections -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index -- About the Book and the Author

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Ranging from literacy campaigns, to poetry, to popular music, films, and detective fiction, Medin recounts the efforts of Cuba's leaders to shape a popular revolutionary social consciousness.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781555871871 9781685858797

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781685858797 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communism and culture--Cuba.
Political socialization--Cuba.
Popular culture--Cuba.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American.

LC Class. No.: HX523 / .M43 1990

Dewey Class. No.: 972.9106/4