ABSTRACT
When the Soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers—East and West—assumed that the disappearance of the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. By the mid-1970s such romantic jeux d'esprit were forgotten; Castro had fully dispensed with moral incentives and composed his differences with the Soviets. The ideological fit between revisionism and Castroism is too evident to require comment. Rather more interesting, however, is the way that revisionist themes have resurfaced in the work of Cuban-American historians working in the United States, many of them born here or brought to this country as small children. Three particular cases are considered. Two are chapters by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and Jorge Domínguez in Leslie Bethell's portmanteau volume, Cuba: A Short History. The other is Marifeli Perez-Stable's The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy.
