Exploring the cultural exchange between Cuban communism and the French avant-garde. "Between the European intellectual and the peasant from the Sierra Maestra, or the sugar-cane cutter, there is something in common that we revolutionaries can understand well, and that is this striving for justice, this striving for the progress of humanity, this striving for human dignity." Fidel Castro. In 1950s Paris anti-Stalinism was causing a sharp decline in the otherwise popular French communist party…