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Nicola Miller, Jonathan C. Brown. Cuba’s Revolutionary World., The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 5, December 2018, Pages 1620–1622, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy209
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It is telling that the most dangerous moment of the Cold War is known by a variety of names. The Cuban Missile Crisis, as it is commonly called in the United States and by its allies, was referred to in the Soviet Union as the Caribbean Crisis, signaling the strategic rather than ideological outlook of the view from Moscow. In Cuba itself, where there were so many crises during the early years of the revolution that they seemed to warrant a monthly reckoning, it was the October Crisis. As was discussed at a series of post–Cold War conferences on the Missile Crisis, attended by participants from the United States, the USSR, and, latterly, Cuba, it is difficult and probably not even desirable to reconcile the different perspectives of the parties involved. In the historiography of the Cold War, currently in its third wave, all the usual problems of historical interpretation are still writ large. Even now, nearly three decades after it ended, context is all.
