Marxism–Leninism Cuban Revolution, led by Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, overthrew the régime (1925–1959) of Fulgencio Batista to establish the Republic of Cuba, a Communist state recognised by the Soviet Union. In response, the United States attempted a coup d'état against the Castro government, such as the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961), by anti-communist Cuban exiles, sponsored by the CIA. The next year, there occurred the Cuban missile crisis (October 1962), a diplomatic dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of medium-range, Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union resolved the nuclear-missile crisis
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris journal, then in the 10/18 series and finally reedited by Christian Bourgois. "HTMLGIANT"s Lily Hoang reviewed it favorably stating "Georges Perec is charming, the most charming man I will never meet, and "An Attempt" is yet another charming example of his charm." An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, (French: "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien") is a short (roughly 60 pages) book by Georges Perec written in October 1974 and published in 1975. It is a collection of observations which Perec wrote as he sat in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris. Rather