Grey years

Grey years
Grey years
1971 – 1976 (debated)
	Fidel Castro giving a speech in Havana (1973).
Location	Cuba
President(s)	Fidel Castro
Key events	Padilla affair
Revolutionary Offensive	El Diálogo

The grey years were a loosely defined period in Cuban history, generally agreed to have started with the Padilla affair in 1971.^[1] It is often associated with the tenure of Luis Pavón Tamayo (de) as the head of Cuba's National Cultural Council ("Consejo Nacional de Cuba", or CNC) from 1971 to 1976.^[2] The period is also sometimes called the quinquenio gris ("five grey years"),^[3] the trinquenio amargo ("bitter fifteen years"),^[4] or the decada negra ("the black decade").^[5]

The grey years were generally defined by cultural censorship,^[6] harassment of intellectuals and artists,^[2] and the ostracization of members of the LGBT+ community.^[7] Greater monetary influence from the Soviet Union during this time period pressured Cuba into adopting a model of cultural repression that was reflected in Cuba's domestic policy throughout the 1970s.^[2]

^ Artaraz, Kepa (2017). "Constructing Identities in a Contested Setting: Cuba's Intellectual Elite during and after the Revolution". Oral History. 45 (2): 50–59. JSTOR 26382600 – via JSTOR.
^ ^a ^b ^c Weppler-Grogan, Doreen (2010). "Cultural Policy, the Visual Arts, and the Advance of the Cuban Revolution in the Aftermath of the Gray Years". Cuban Studies. 41: 143–165. doi:10.1353/cub.2010.a413143. JSTOR 24487232 – via JSTOR.
^ MILLER, NICOLA (November 2008). "A Revolutionary Modernity: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution". Journal of Latin American Studies. 40 (4): 675–696. doi:10.1017/s0022216x08004719. ISSN 0022-216X. S2CID 55175472 – via JSTOR.
^ Guerra, Lillian (2015). "Former Slum Dwellers, the Communist Youth, and the Lewis Project in Cuba, 1969–1971". Cuban Studies. 43 (1): 67–89. doi:10.1353/cub.2015.0015. ISSN 1548-2464. S2CID 142796334 – via JSTOR.
^ Digital cultures and the politics of emotion : feelings, affect and technological change. Athina Karatzogianni, Adi Kuntsman. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. ISBN 978-0-230-39134-5. OCLC 783811371.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ BUSTAMANTE, MICHAEL J. (2019). "Cultural Politics and Political Cultures of the Cuban Revolution: New Directions in Scholarship". Cuban Studies (47): 3–18. ISSN 0361-4441. JSTOR 26614333.
^ Randall, Margaret (2009-01-06). To Change the World. Rutgers University Press. p. 174. doi:10.36019/9780813546452. ISBN 978-0-8135-4645-2.

[:2-1] Artaraz, Kepa (2017). "Constructing Identities in a Contested Setting: Cuba's Intellectual Elite during and after the Revolution". Oral History. 45 (2): 50–59. JSTOR 26382600 – via JSTOR.

[:0-2] Weppler-Grogan, Doreen (2010). "Cultural Policy, the Visual Arts, and the Advance of the Cuban Revolution in the Aftermath of the Gray Years". Cuban Studies. 41: 143–165. doi:10.1353/cub.2010.a413143. JSTOR 24487232 – via JSTOR.

[:1-3] MILLER, NICOLA (November 2008). "A Revolutionary Modernity: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution". Journal of Latin American Studies. 40 (4): 675–696. doi:10.1017/s0022216x08004719. ISSN 0022-216X. S2CID 55175472 – via JSTOR.

[4] Guerra, Lillian (2015). "Former Slum Dwellers, the Communist Youth, and the Lewis Project in Cuba, 1969–1971". Cuban Studies. 43 (1): 67–89. doi:10.1353/cub.2015.0015. ISSN 1548-2464. S2CID 142796334 – via JSTOR.

[:8-5] Digital cultures and the politics of emotion : feelings, affect and technological change. Athina Karatzogianni, Adi Kuntsman. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. ISBN 978-0-230-39134-5. OCLC 783811371.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[:7-6] BUSTAMANTE, MICHAEL J. (2019). "Cultural Politics and Political Cultures of the Cuban Revolution: New Directions in Scholarship". Cuban Studies (47): 3–18. ISSN 0361-4441. JSTOR 26614333.

[:3-7] Randall, Margaret (2009-01-06). To Change the World. Rutgers University Press. p. 174. doi:10.36019/9780813546452. ISBN 978-0-8135-4645-2.

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