Antifascism in Post-1959 Cuba
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2025
This chapter tackles the question: What opportunities and liabilities did living, breathing veterans of 1930s Cuban antifascism present to Cuban revolutionary leaders beginning in 1959? It explores the convoluted, often transnational trajectories of individual antifascist Cubans from the 1930s forward. In so doing, it intervenes into the historiographies of both transnational antifascism and the Cuban Revolution, the former which has until recently mostly ignored Cuba and the latter which has mostly ignored antifascism. Individual human stories that demonstrate the multifaceted interactions of 1930s Cuban antifascism with the Cuban Revolution counter oversimplification, omission, politicization, and romanticization. The chapter concludes that historical memory of 1930s Cuban antifascism existed in post-1959 Cuba only to the extent to which it stood in explicit support of the Cuban Revolution, at least through the end of the twentieth century, and that it served ideological and pragmatic purposes
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