Sovietization of Cuba

Fidel Castro visiting the Soviet Union in 1972.

The Sovietization of Cuba is a historiographical model proposed by scholars like political scientist Piero Gleijeses, and economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago. The sovietization thesis defines Cuba's political developments, and military actions, in the 1970s, completely in relation to the Soviet Union. The thesis proposes that Cuba's economic dependence on the Soviet Union, encouraged the Cuban government to model itself after the Soviet Union, and for the Cuban military to follow Soviet whims.[1] According to Mesa-Lago, the sovietization of Cuba, reduced Cuba to a state subordinate to the Soviet Union, akin to how Batista's Cuba was subordinate to the United States.[2]

  1. ^ Cuba's Forgotten Decade How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution. Lexington Books. 2018. p. 27-28. ISBN 9781498568746.
  2. ^ Cuban Political Economy Controversies In Cubanology. Taylor and Francis. 2019. p. The Sovietization of Cuba Thesis revisited. ISBN 9780429721953.