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Title: Cuban Revolution Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1959-1965
Collection number: 1136
Extent: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: The Cuban Revolution originated with discontent over the repressive regime of Fulgencio Batista, who sought greater popularity
by staging rigged elections in 1954 and 1958. In 1953, student revolutionary Fidel Castro led an attack on a military base.
Preparing a major guerilla assault while in Mexico, Castro returned to Cuba in December 1956, and after initial failures retreated
to the Sierra Maestra. Over the next months, anti-Batista feeling grew, and after a series of battles, Castro's forces took
Santiago on January 2, 1959, and ended the war. The first Soviet trade agreement in 1960 and Castro's seizure of foreign oil
company investments slowly drove the U.S. and Cuba apart, leading up to the failed U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). The collection consists of transcripts of radio broadcasts made by Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael,
and other Cuban leaders (1963-64), Cuban, Russian and Brazilian newspapers and pamphlets related to the Cuban Revolution,
as well as some Cuban exile literature.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Purchase, 1973.
[Identification of item], Cuban Revolution Collection (Collection 1136). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
964396
The Cuban Revolution originated with discontent over the repressive regime of Fulgencio Batista, who sought greater popularity
by staging rigged elections in 1954 and 1958. In 1953, student revolutionary Fidel Castro led an attack on a military base.
Preparing a major guerilla assault while in Mexico, Castro returned to Cuba in December 1956, and after initial failures retreated
to the Sierra Maestra. Over the next months, anti-Batista feeling grew, and after a series of battles, Castro's forces took
Santiago on January 2, 1959, and ended the war. The first Soviet trade agreement in 1960 and Castro's seizure of foreign oil
company investments slowly drove the U.S. and Cuba apart, leading up to the failed U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and the
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
Collection consists of transcripts of radio broadcasts made by Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael, and other Cuban leaders (1963-64).
Also contains Cuban, Russian and Brazilian newspapers and pamphlets related to the Cuban Revolution, as well as some Cuban
exile literature.
Arranged in the following series:
- Transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1963-64 (Boxes 1-3).
- Cuban pamphlets--Fidel Castro's speeches (Box 3).
- Cuban exile bulletins, newspapers, and pamphlets (Boxes 3-4).
- Cuban, Russian, and Brazilian newspapers (Oversize box 4).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Castro, Fidel, 1926- .
Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Archival resources.
Cuba--History, 1959- --Archival resources.