How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution - Hardcover

Elizabeth Dore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1803283793 ISBN 13: 9781803283791

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2022

Synopsis

How Things Fall Apart reveals the decay of this political system through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. Born in the 1970s and 80s, these men and women recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous stretch of thirty-five years: first when Fidel opened the country to tourism following the fall of the Soviet bloc; then when Raul Castro allowed market forces to operate, thinking it would stop the country's economic slide; and finally when President Trump's tightening of the US embargo combined with the Covid-19 pandemic to cause economic collapse. With warmth and humanity, they describe learning to survive in an environment where a tiny minority has grown rich by local standards, the great majority has been left behind, and inequality has destroyed the very things that used to give meaning to Cubans' lives.

Born out of the first oral history project authorized by the Cuban government in forty years, Professor Elizabeth Dore gathers these stories to illuminate the slow and agonizing decline of the Cuban Revolution over the past four decades. For over sixty years the government controlled the historical narrative. In this book, Cubans tell their own stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803283793
• ISBN 13: 9781803283791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304