Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961-1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay

by Isabel Story

Overview

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution’s independence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498580113
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/04/2019
Series:	Lexington Studies on Cuba , #8
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Isabel Story is senior lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Structure

Chapter 2: The Soviet-Cuban Relationship

Chapter 3: The Conception and Trajectory of Socialist Realism in the USSR

Chapter 4: Cuban Cultural Policy, 1959–1975: Diversity and Rising Nationalism

Chapter 5: Cuban Cultural Policy 1976–1986: Inscribing Cuba in the International

Chapter 6: Staging the Revolution

Chapter 7: Adelante el Arte: The Plastic Arts in Cuba

Chapter 8: Soviet Ruins and Stylized Nostalgia

Editorial Reviews

Challenging simple notions of a Sovietization of Cuban culture during the Cold War, this book is a nuanced and in-depth study of the multifaceted adaptation, and sometimes rejection, of Soviet artistic forms in post-revolutionary Cuban theater and visual arts.

Tobias Rupprecht

A remarkable contribution to the Cold War Studies field.

Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido

Since its inception, relations between Havana and Moscow have been subject to a number of preconceptions and assumptions. The bilateral cultural relationship is no different. However, in this meticulously researched work, focusing particularly on theater and the visual arts in two key—but very different—periods (1960 to 1963 and 1975 to 1986), Isabel Story both makes readers question Cuban-Soviet relations in general and also gives rise to a rethinking of culture within the Cuban Revolution itself.

Mervyn J. Bain