Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America

Dirk Kruijt is professor emeritus of development studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University. A sociologist turned anthropologist, he has undertaken research on entrepreneurs and the labour class, ethnicity and exclusion, and military dictatorship and guerrilla movements, and has conducted fieldwork in many Latin American and Caribbean countries. His previous oral history books are about the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Velasco Alvarado in Peru and the guerrilla movements in Central America.

• 1. Revolutionaries2. Historical Context3. From Insurgents to Socialists4. Revolutionary Fervour (the 1960s)5. The Mature Years (early 1970s–late 1980s)6. The Years of Soft Power (1990s–present)7. The LegacyAppendix: Biographical Data of Interviewed Persons

Especially impressive … Kruijt accurately traces a significant evolution in Cuba’s approach to Latin America … [and] reminds us just how much about Cuba’s engagements in the region we do not know.'