• Table of Contents


• Acknowledgments


• Foreword


• Introduction


• 1. Cuba Before 1959


• 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-91


• 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006


• 4. After Fidel, Under Raul


• 5. A Changing Cuba Under Raul Castro's Presidency


• 6. December 17, 2014 and Beyond


• Suggested Reading


• Index

Julia E. Sweig is Senior Research Fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the award-winning author of several other books, including inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, for which she won the American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. She has been traveling to and writing about Cuba since 1984. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC.

Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.