Cuban communism /

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Edition:5th ed.
Imprint:New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, c1984.
Description:xii, 805 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/586670
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Other authors / contributors:Horowitz, Irving Louis
ISBN:0878559434 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. History
  • 1.. Cuba: The United States and Batista, 1952-1958
  • 2.. The Sierra and the Plains
  • 3.. Decentralization, Local Government, and Participation in Cuba
  • 4.. Guerrillas at War
  • 5.. Eisenhower, Castro, and the Soviets
  • 6.. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
  • 7.. Immutable Proclamations and Unintended Consequences
  • 8.. Cuba and the Soviet Union: What Kind of Dependency?
  • 9.. Fidelismo: The Unfulfilled Ideology
  • Part 2. Economy
  • 10.. Cuba's Economic Policies and Strategies for the 1990s
  • 11.. The Cuban Economy as Seen Through Its Trading Partners
  • 12.. The Castro Regime Under the Bretton Woods System
  • 13.. Cuba's Socialist Economy: The Mid-1990s
  • 14.. Labor Force and Education in Cuba
  • 15.. Managing State Enterprises in Cuba
  • 16.. Foreign Investment Opportunities in Cuba: Evaluating the Risks
  • 17.. Challenges and Policy Imperatives to the Economy
  • Part 3. Society
  • 18.. Higher Education and the Institutionalized Regime
  • 19.. The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior
  • 20.. Political Control and Cuban Youth
  • 21.. Women's Rights and the Cuban Revolution
  • 22.. Juvenile Delinquency in Post-Revolutionary Cuba
  • 23.. Journalism and Propaganda in the New Cuba
  • 24.. Health Care in Cuba
  • 25.. Revolutionary Defense Committees
  • 26.. The Politics of Sports in Revolutionary Cuba
  • 27.. Cuba's Refugees: Manifold Migrations
  • Part 4. Military
  • 28.. Political-Military Relations from 1959 to the Present
  • 29.. Human Rights and Military Rule in Cuba
  • 30.. Military Origin and Evolution of the Cuban Revolution
  • 31.. "War of all the People": Cuba's Military Doctrines
  • 32.. Political and Military Elites
  • 33.. The Ochoa Affair and Its Aftermath
  • 34.. The Cuban Armed Forces: Changing Roles, Continued Loyalties
  • Part 5. Polity
  • 35.. Why the Cuban Regime Has Not Fallen
  • 36.. Cuba: Without Subsidies
  • 37.. Cuba's Transition: Institutional Lessons from Eastern Europe
  • 38.. Cuba and the United States: Back to the Beginning
  • 39.. Actors, Models, and Endgames
  • 40.. The Cuban Revolution and Its Acolytes
  • 41.. Crises of the Castro Regime
  • 42.. The U.S.-Cuba Agenda: Opportunity or Stalemate
  • 43.. Cuba Beyond Castro
  • 44.. After Fidel, What?: Forecasting Institutional Changes in Cuba
  • 45.. Castro's Legacy
  • 46.. Political Pilgrimage and the End of Ideology
  • Appendices
  • 47.. Chronology of the Cuban Revolution: 1959-1998
  • 48.. Current and Past Revolutionary Leaders
  • Contributors