Transformation and Struggle

Cuba Faces the 1990s

AvSandor Halebsky,John Kirk

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, it offers a positive account. Yet, it is sensitive to the dilemmas and flawed strategies in Cuba's thirty-year process of transformation. It warns that no preconceived notion of state or of development will help grasp the multifaceted nature of this nation, which reflects aspects of both developed and underdeveloped nations. Seventeen chapters, five of which are from Cuban contributors, thoroughly investigate recent political, economic, and social changes as well as the successes and failures of long-term development policies. Heavy attention is paid to the rectification process launched by Castro in 1986.This volume portrays a Cuba facing the 1990s with a burst of increased vigor in its efforts to secure continued far-reaching transformation. Seventeen chapters describe major changes in the economic realm caught up in the rectification campaign; a slow process of liberalization in the political sphere; and a Cuba that, in social terms, is far better off than any other Latin American country.

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Utgivningsdatum:1990-04-09
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275932282

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SANDOR HALEBSKY is Professor of Sociology at St. Mary's University and is co-editor of Cuba: Twenty Five Years of Revolution.JOHN M. KIRK is Professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University and is co-editor of Cuba: Twenty Five Years of Revolution.

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Introduction The Political: State, Society, and the Citizen The Cuban Rectification: Safeguarding the Revoluton While Building the Future by Max Azicri Socialism and Democracy: Some Thoughts after 30 Years of Revolution in Cuba by Marifefi Perez-Stable The Matter of Democracy in Cuba: Snapshots of Three Moments by Carollee Bengelsdorf The Changing Role of Law in Revolutionary Cuba by Debra Evenson Human Rights in Cuba: Politics and Ideology by Tony Platt and Ed McCaughan The Economy: Productivity, Development, and Equity The Cuban Economy: A Current Assessment by Jose Luis Rodriguez Agricultural Policy with Social Justice and Development by Eugenio R. Balari Agricultural Production Cooperatives and Cuban Socialism: New Approaches to Agricultural Development by Mieke Meurs Cuba's Economic Diversification: Progress and Shotcomings by Andrew Zimbalist Some Reflections on the Cuban Economic Model by Claes Brundenius The Supply of Consumer Goods in Cuba by Eugenio R. Balari The Social: Systems of Relationship, Status, and Social Services The Cuban Family in the 1980s by Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula Cuba's New Professionals by Frank T. Fitzgerald The Changing Class Structure in the Development of Socialism in Cuba by Mayra Espina Prieto and Lilia Nunez Moreno The Catholic Faith and Revolution in Cuba: Contradictions and Understanding by Aurelio Alons Tejada Cuban Housing Policy by Jill Hamberg Whither Cuban Medicine? Challenges for the Next Generation by Sarah M. Santana Selected Bibliography Index