The cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution in Oriente University (1959-1975)

Abstract

Introduction: The university context of Santiago de Cuba requires, in order to compensate for the theoretical deficiencies around the topic according to the current political and cultural changes, the preparation of a monograph that refers to the theoretical positions that underlie the ideological and class struggle at the University of Oriente in the period (1959-1971) as well as the cultural management of the Department of Cultural Activities and Extension that affects the territory of Santiago de Cuba from the house of higher studies. The research is based on the information provided by various bibliographic, documentary, newspaper and testimonial sources. In it, the materialist-dialectical approach is used as a general method to obtain information on the current state of the research object, in its interactions as a process where the theoretical and empirical are articulated, with the statistics of chronological perception. It is enriched by the analysis of the cultural policy applied by the Cuban state in the aforementioned historical time, an aspect little addressed by historiography, hence its relevance. So, the novelty consists in the development of instruments, chronological analysis and characterization of the context by establishing strengths and weaknesses, based on ideological expressions with philosophical and historical foundations,