Reminiscences of Fidel Castro : oral history, 1965.

Biographical Note

Revolutionary leader.

Scope and Contents

Transcription of recordings of several speeches in Spanish, followed by a series of tape-recorded interviews in English (with the aid of an interpreter). The interviews cover a range of subjects on Cuba: agricultural policy, especially the sugar industry, land use, and people's farms; economy in general and foreign trade, future potentialties; revolutionary philosophy, how the Communist revolution worked in different regions, political prisoners and indemnification; local government organizations; questions of leadership, nature and use of power; education, creative arts, voluntary exiles and counter-revolutionaries; relations with the United States: Vietnam, Dominican Republic; missile crisis; United States press; relations with Russia.

Subjects

• Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.
• Communism--Cuba.
• Cuba--Economic conditions--1918-1959.
• Cuba--Economic conditions--1959-1990.
• Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
• Cuba--History--1959-1990.
• Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959.
• Cuba--Politics and government--1933-1959.
• Cuba--Social conditions.
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
• Interviews.
• Lockwood, Lee, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Revolutionaries--Interviews.
• United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.