Historia y crítica de la conciencia revolucionaria

Abstract

This essay explores the basic argument of Tzvi Medin’s important book, Cuba. The Shaping of Revolutionary Consciousness (1990). It is interesting to locate the publication of the volume at a moment of irreversible change or hinge between two events: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. This temporality powerfully marked the scope and limits of the book and forces us to undertake a careful rereading of the itinerary of the historiography on the Cuban experience in the last three decades.