Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cuba's revolution from within : the politics of historical paradigms / Jennifer L. Lambe and Michael J. Bustamante -- The new text of the revolution / Rafael Rojas -- Writing the revolution's history out of closed archives? Cuban archival laws and access to information / Jorge Macle Cruz -- Searching for the Messiah : staging revolution in the Sierra Maestra, 1956-1959 / Lillian Guerra -- "We demand, we demand..." : Cuba, 1959 : the paradoxes of Year 1 / María del Pilar Díaz Castañón -- Geotransformación : geography and revolution in Cuba from the 1950s to the 1960s / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Between Espíritu and Conciencia : cabaret and ballet developments in 1960s Cuba / Elizabeth Schwall -- When the "new man" met the "old man" : Guevara, Nyerere, and the roots of Latin-Africanism / Christabelle Peters -- The material promise of socialist modernity : fashion and domestic space in the 1970s / María Antonia Cabrera Arús-- Anniversary overload? Memory fatigue at Cuba's socialist apex / Michael J. Bustamante -- "Here, everyone's got huevos, Mister!" : nationalism, sexuality, and collective violence in Cuba during the Mariel Exodus / Abel Sierra Madero -- Cuba 1959/Haiti 1804 : on history and Caribbean revolution / Ada Ferrer -- La Ventolera : ruptures, persistence, and the historiography of the Cuban Revolution / Alejandro de la Fuente -- Whither the empire? / Jennifer L. Lambe.

Drawing on previously unexamined archives, the contributors to The Revolution from Within examine the Cuban Revolution from a Cuba-centric perspective by foregrounding the experience of everyday