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Killing Communists in Havana: The Start of the Cold War in Latin America by Steve Cushion
Concise study of anti-communism in Cuba and beyond in the 1940s
Attacked: Jesus Menendez, head of the Cuban sugar workers’ union

THIS book complements Steve Cushion’s earlier work A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution and is an equally well-researched and readable account.

In it, Cushion has rescued key parts of Cuba’s working-class history. It has often been argued that the Cuban revolution of 1959 was the result of a socially and politically isolated group of guerilla adventurers.

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