Cuban Politics: The Revolutionary Experiment

Eduardo Chibás: Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics

Eduardo Chibás (1907-1951) was a unique figure in Cuban politics between 1947 and 1951 the last years of democratic rule before a military coup in March of 1952. His flamboyant manner and shocking public accusations, transmitted to a nationwide audience via radio, allowed him to dominate the island's political discourse, introduce an original political style and present himself as a preferable ...

Leveraging Bargaining Power under Patriarchy: the Economic Development of Post-revolutionary Cuban Women by Thesis

French Revolutionary Studies A FAILURE OF ENLIGHTENED POLITICS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE SOCIETE

In the spring and early summer of 1790, a new and formidable political association appeared in Paris dedicated to the consolidation of the Revolutionary gains of the previous year and to the development, propagation and implementation of Enlightened social and political ideals. The Societe de 1789 was founded by the marquis de Condorcet and abbe Sieyes in April 1790, and quickly attracted a lar...

Passionate uprisings: young people, sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran.

This paper examines the sexual and social practices of young people in contemporary Iran. Young people in urban areas live under the rubric of a fundamentalist, Islamist regime which restricts social freedoms such as premarital heterosexual contact, homosexual encounters, dancing, alcohol consumption and large group gatherings. Drawing on close focus research and individual and group inteviews,...

Revolutionary Science

On rare occasions in the history of science, remarkable discoveries transform human society and forever alter mankind's view of the world. Examples of such discoveries include the heliocentric theory, Newtonian physics, the germ theory of disease, quantum theory, plate tectonics and the discovery that DNA carries genetic information. The science philosopher Thomas Kuhn famously described scienc...