SIstory Info.- Helen Yaffe (Glasgow) Democracy and Participation in Revolutionary Cuba Moderator: Ana Kladnik (Ljubljana). Helen Yaffe joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Economic and Social History in 2018. Her teaching focuses on Latin American and Cuban development.

Since 1995 (as a teenager), she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. Her doctoral thesis was adapted for publication as Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. In 2011, she joined the University of Leicester to work with Professor Gavin Brown on the project Non-Stop Against Apartheid: the spaces of transnational solidarity. Their book, Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid, was published in 2017. In 2020 she published We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press. Here Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place in Cuba in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.