American sociologist who reopened the debate on the Cuban Revolution
In The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (2006) he cast the revolutionary leaders as autonomous actors pursuing their own ideological vision rather than a master plan, challenging the dominant reading.
Born in Marianao, Cuba, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland. He joined the anti-Batista movement as a high school student, moved to the United States in 1958 and took his PhD in sociology at UC Berkeley in 1969. He taught at UCLA, SUNY-Old Westbury, Fairleigh Dickinson and Brooklyn College (CUNY), retiring in 2007, and has written on the Cuban Revolution, the Castro government, Soviet history and US politics from a left-wing, radical-democratic standpoint. No death record is confirmed.
Career Timeline
- 1939Born in Marianao, Cuba
- 1950년대Took part in the anti-Batista mass movement as a high school student
- 1958Moved to the United States
- 1969PhD in sociology, UC Berkeley
- 1976Published Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933–1960
- 1990Published Before Stalinism
- 2006Published The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
- 2007Retired from Brooklyn College (CUNY)