Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. From “¡Patria o Muerte!” to “¡Patria y Vida!”: Excavating the Nation from the State, Explaining Cuba’s Internal Cold War
Chapter 1. Lessons in Loving the Revolution: Political Education, Violence, and the 1961 Literacy Campaign
Chapter 2. Securing the State, 1961–1966: Fear, Surveillance, and National Liberation
Chapter 3. The Generous Revolution: Rehabilitation, Political Prisoners, and Coercive Inclusion in the 1960s
Chapter 4. The “Anti-Revolution” of the Late 1960s: Reeducation, Integration, and Everyday Authoritarianism
Chapter 5. Young Communists, Former Slum Dwellers, and the Lewis Project in Cuba, 1968–1972
Chapter 6. Labor, the Pedagogy of Love, and Cuba’s Child Revolutionaries, 1968–1972
Chapter 7. Los Años Rojos (The Red Years): Cuba in the 1970s
Chapter 8. The Road to El Mariel: Perfectionism, Alienation, Exhaustion, and the New Man
Chapter 9. “We Are Happy Here”: Amplifying the Revolutionary Script and the Crisis of El Mariel
Epilogue. The Paradigm of Patriots and Traitors Revisited: Exodus as Opposition and the Uncertain Future of Democracy Lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index