Research note: the Cuban Missile Crisis and a war of words in Argentina

Abstract

ABSTRACT This Research Note discusses a new methodological approach to the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis that approaches the event through the lens of a collection of communist and anticommunist pamphlets from an archive in La Plata, Argentina. It argues that the words and images contained in these documents reveal popular, non-government responses to the crisis. The pamphlets offer the opportunity to tell a new history that shifts the focus from superpower rivalry to local activism and global engagement.