Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1990

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

O'Sullivan, John

Abstract

The perception of the Cuban missile crisis created in the 1960s has undergone drastic changes in the quarter century following that event. The emerging picture in the 1990s is a very different one from the original limited view of respectful acclaim and admiration for President John F. Kennedy and his advisors. Historians of the crisis have rushed to develop new perspectives without full use of all material available. Existing American declassifications help explain Soviet motives but do not justify them. Soviet and Cuban archival sources remain virtually untapped. Existing oral histories require documentary confirmation. The bulk of all multi-national archival material remains unavailable. The study of the crisis has not passed beyond its preliminary stages with the full story still to be written.

Extent

415 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14667

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