
Links below retrieve 1950’s Cuba LIFE articles of special interest to Cuba 1952-1959 history.
- Ingredients of a revolution (LIFE Mar 24, 1952: Batista Coup)
- Wanted: a mandate (LIFE Aug 9, 1954: 1954 Elections)
- Eleventh body in a mystery (LIFE May 21, 1956: Goicuria garrison Matanzas attack)
- Revolt fails but defiance lives on in Cuba (LIFE Mar 25, 1957: Presidential Palace Attack)
- In man’s War US Boys Quit (LIFE May 27, 1957 p43: Taber Sierra Rebels photos)
- Castro on eve of his big bid (LIFE Apr 14, 1958: Castro preparing for “Total War”)
- [Batista’s] Violent show's smooth front (LIFE Apr 21, 1958: Total War aftermath)
- Exclusive Report: The Captives in Cuba (LIFE Jul 14, 1958: Raul Castro hostages)
- Inside Rebel Cuba with Raul Castro (LIFE Jul 21, 1958: US Hostage negotiations)
- [Castro’s] Liberator’s Triumphal March (LIFE Jan 19, 1959: Entrance to Havana)
- The Killing in Cuba and a moral issue (LIFE Jan 26, 1959: Castros defend executions)
- Hate holds court in Cuba (LIFE Feb 2, 1959: Revolutionary trials)
- At ringside when Cuba clobbered democracy (LIFE Jul 27, 1959: Urrutia ouster)