Filling the Void: Perspectives on Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel is part of a new wave in the study of the Cuban history which seeks to revolutionize the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by rethinking the political polarization central to many Cold-War-era studies and incorporating previously underused or difficult to access materials as well as new, transnational perspectives from both on and off the island. Many studies of the Cuban Revolution focus on the periods of consolidation during the 1960s or the erosion of the 1990s, but this panel’s focus on the 1970s will allow insight into an understudied yet crucial period of institutionalization of the Revolution.

Sub Track

• History and Historiography

Chairs

• Lauren N Krebs

• Alexis Baldacci, University of Florida

Individual Presentations

• El sueño de la razón produce “hombres nuevos.” Juventud, recreación, tiempo libre y diversionismo ideológico en Cuba durante la década de 1970 - Abel Sierra-Madero, New York University

• Shaping Socialist Consumers: Shopping, Sovietization, and the Cuban State in the 1970s - Alexis Baldacci, University of Florida

• Cuban maestros, Nicaraguan becarios: Revolutionary Education in Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1980s - Emily Snyder

• “Joven del mundo, Cuba es tu Casa”: Political tourism and the 1978 World Festival of Youth and Students - Lauren N Krebs

Discussant

• Jennifer L Lambe, Brown University