The Resource Neither peace nor freedom : the cultural Cold War in Latin America, Patrick Iber
Neither peace nor freedom : the cultural Cold War in Latin America, Patrick Iber
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- Summary
- "This book tells the history of Latin America's cultural Cold War through an interwoven analysis of three organizations that targeted influential artists, scholars, and writers: the CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom, the Soviet-aligned World Peace Council, and Cuba's Casa de las Américas. The author argues that in spite of their status as 'front' groups for the interests of the United States, the Soviet Union, and revolutionary Cuba, respectively, these organizations were both the creation of foreign interventions and of preexisting currents of the Latin American left that held a variety of conflicting views about how to bring about greater social justice. The book thus shows that even Cold War fronts could secure a measure of independence from their patrons, and that pro-democracy and egalitarian movements emerged from both the anti-Communist left and its pro-Communist counterparts. Yet each community eventually found that its sponsor's problems--those of Stalin, of the CIA, or of Fidel Castro--became its own. Rather than seeing the struggles of Latin America's left as the result of poor choices of strategy, the history of intellectuals' engagement with power shows that all available paths toward a more democratic and egalitarian Latin America required debilitating compromise, including with foreign empires. The relative lack of social democracy during Latin America's Cold War is therefore not a puzzle requiring explanation, but the predictable result of the intellectual and political problems faced by those who sought to achieve it"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Exile and dissent in the making of the cultural Cold War
- Making peace with repression, making repression with peace
- The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the imperialism of liberty
- The anti-communist left and the Cuban Revolution
- Peace and national liberation in the Mexican 1960s
- Modernizing cultural freedom
- Disenchantment and the end of the cultural Cold War
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780674286047
- Label
- Neither peace nor freedom : the cultural Cold War in Latin America
- Title
- Neither peace nor freedom
- Title remainder
- the cultural Cold War in Latin America
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrick Iber
- Subject
-
- Cold War -- Social aspects -- Latin America
- Communism -- Latin America
- Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Casa de las Américas
- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980
- Social justice -- Latin America
- World Peace Council
- Democracy -- Latin America
- Cold War -- Political aspects -- Latin America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book tells the history of Latin America's cultural Cold War through an interwoven analysis of three organizations that targeted influential artists, scholars, and writers: the CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom, the Soviet-aligned World Peace Council, and Cuba's Casa de las Américas. The author argues that in spite of their status as 'front' groups for the interests of the United States, the Soviet Union, and revolutionary Cuba, respectively, these organizations were both the creation of foreign interventions and of preexisting currents of the Latin American left that held a variety of conflicting views about how to bring about greater social justice. The book thus shows that even Cold War fronts could secure a measure of independence from their patrons, and that pro-democracy and egalitarian movements emerged from both the anti-Communist left and its pro-Communist counterparts. Yet each community eventually found that its sponsor's problems--those of Stalin, of the CIA, or of Fidel Castro--became its own. Rather than seeing the struggles of Latin America's left as the result of poor choices of strategy, the history of intellectuals' engagement with power shows that all available paths toward a more democratic and egalitarian Latin America required debilitating compromise, including with foreign empires. The relative lack of social democracy during Latin America's Cold War is therefore not a puzzle requiring explanation, but the predictable result of the intellectual and political problems faced by those who sought to achieve it"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Iber, Patrick
- Dewey number
- 303.3/72098
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F1414.2
- LC item number
- .I235 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Congress for Cultural Freedom
- World Peace Council
- Casa de las Américas
- Latin America
- Cold War
- Cold War
- Social justice
- Communism
- Democracy
- Label
- Neither peace nor freedom : the cultural Cold War in Latin America, Patrick Iber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Exile and dissent in the making of the cultural Cold War -- Making peace with repression, making repression with peace -- The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the imperialism of liberty -- The anti-communist left and the Cuban Revolution -- Peace and national liberation in the Mexican 1960s -- Modernizing cultural freedom -- Disenchantment and the end of the cultural Cold War -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 906121447
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674286047
- Lccn
- 2015008012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906121447
- Label
- Neither peace nor freedom : the cultural Cold War in Latin America, Patrick Iber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Exile and dissent in the making of the cultural Cold War -- Making peace with repression, making repression with peace -- The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the imperialism of liberty -- The anti-communist left and the Cuban Revolution -- Peace and national liberation in the Mexican 1960s -- Modernizing cultural freedom -- Disenchantment and the end of the cultural Cold War -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 906121447
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 327 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674286047
- Lccn
- 2015008012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906121447
Subject
- Cold War -- Social aspects -- Latin America
- Communism -- Latin America
- Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Casa de las Américas
- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980
- Social justice -- Latin America
- World Peace Council
- Democracy -- Latin America
- Cold War -- Political aspects -- Latin America
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