Revolución y Cultura, 1967–2009

A Cuban Magazine About Revolution and Culture

• 318 issues spanning 43 years
• 27,468 digital pages (full color)
• Full-text search functionality
• MARC21 catalog records available
• Scanned from the originals in Havana, Cuba

Revolución y Cultura is a fundamental and often unique resource for the study of more than half a century of Cuban culture. Founded as a biweekly in 1961 under the title Pueblo y Cultura and continued in 1965 as the bilingual magazine Revolution et/and Culture and as RC in 1967, Revolución y Cultura has published uninterruptedly since March 1972. From its foundation until 1977, when the Cuban Ministry of Culture was created, it appeared as the official organ of Cuba’s National Council of Culture. Since then it has been attached to the Ministry, without being its official organ. Some of Cuba’s most notable intellectuals have been among the journal’s editors and contributors, including several National Award winners, such as Lisandro Otero, Reynaldo González, Graziella Pogolotti, Ambrosio Fornet, Antón Arrufat, Leonardo Acosta, Jaime Sarusky, Leonardo Padura, and Senel Paz. As an illustrated cultural magazine with a wide thematic range, which for decades has attracted the best writers, photographers, designers and illustrators in the country, Revolución y Cultura offers the most outstanding contributions in literature and the arts by both Cubans and foreigners. Until 1991, the journal published 84 pages and its frequency was monthly. From then on it became a bimonthly and finally a quarterly. From 2004 to 2019 it was published both in print and electronically. Since mid-2019, Revolución y Cultura is published online only. Revolución y Cultura is listed in the UNESCO Portal of Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Luisa Campuzano Sentí
Editor, Revolución y Cultura


Note: two predecessors of Revolución y Cultura – Pueblo y Cultura and Revolution et/and Culture – were distributed free of charge among patrons of the National Council of Culture and among Cuban writers and artists. No complete collection of these earlier incarnations of the journal have survived; indeed, only few copies have been preserved in undamaged condition. This is why these predecessors of Revolución y Cultura are not included in this collection. However, a complete run of RC (1967–1971) is included.


See also our related collection Cuban Periodicals: Cultural Magazines Published by Casa de las Américas, 1960–2009.