Author: Richard GillespiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Special Issue on Cuba After Thirty Years: Rectification and the Revolution
Author: Richard GillespieCuba After Thirty Years
Author: Cuba After Thirty Years
Author: Richard GillespiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135185298
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
First Published in 1990. This collection of articles has been produced, not just to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution, but because the anniversary has fallen at a time of important political developments affecting the Caribbean island.
Cuba After Communism
Author: Eliana A. CardosoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262031974
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
As once-powerful communist rulers flee their presidential palaces and centralized economies give way to free markets, the future of Latin America's last socialist country hangs in the balance. In a fast-paced style that is both technically sophisticated and admirably free of economic jargon, Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege provide a much-needed road map for a peaceful and productive transition from communism to capitalism. They vividly depict the tough choices Cuba faces in the years ahead, and propose a series of reforms to ease Cuba through a transition to capitalism while preserving some legitimate gains--such as those in education and health care--that socialism has provided the Cuban people. The authors begin with the crux of Cuba's predicament: it is an overly centralized single-crop economy that is fast running out of money, as it can no longer depend on privileged trade relations with the former Soviet Union. In this difficult period, Cuba faces the challenge of managing an increasingly chaotic, dysfunctional economy. Is Cuba's transition to capitalism bound to yield another Haiti? Cardoso and Helwege answer with a resounding no. They begin their analysis with a fascinating history of the political roots of Cuba, from Cuban "independence" after the Spanish-American War to the rise of Castro and the development of a socialist economy. After discussing the various economic alternatives reflected in the experience of neighboring countries--models as diverse as Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Chile--the authors present a systematic program to help Cuba prevent economic decline and political chaos. Their plan involves rapid privatization and the attraction offoreign investment, while providing safeguards against the excesses and inequalities endemic to Latin American capitalism.
Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity
Author: Rosi SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137583061
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’ political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival. The author examines this educational experience from the perspective of those who grew up in the years of economic crisis following the fall of the Soviet Union, charting their ideals, their frustrations and their struggle to reconcile revolutionary rhetoric with twenty-first century reality.
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
Author: Emily J. KirkPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498568742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the course of the Revolution. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s which challenges prevailing interpretations. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and exploring a range of areas—including politics, international relations, culture, education, and healthcare—its contributing authors demonstrate that the decade was a time of intense transformation which proved pivotal to the development of the Revolution. Indeed, many of the ideas, approaches, policies, and legislation developed and tested during the 1970s maintain a very visible legacy in contemporary Cuba. In highlighting the complexity of the 1970s, this volume ultimately aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the Cuban Revolution and how it chooses to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Cuba
Author: Jean StubbsPublisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A select, annotated bibliography providing a multidisciplinary guide to Cuba, a country two-thirds the size of Great Britain with some eleven million inhabitants. This volume contains an especially diverse selection of topic headings. There are the usual listings on topics including geography, flora and fauna, prehistory and history, religion, social conditions, foreign relations, economy, finance, industry, literature, sports, media, and the like. In addition, there are sections on tourism and travel guides, travellers' accounts (by era), revolution, slavery and race, and women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Cuba After Castro
Author: Edward GonzalezPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833036173
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and the Cuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro's more than four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be the political, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are the impediments to Cuba's economic development and democratic transition? The authors examine Castro's political legacies, Cuba's generational and racial divisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy, and the need for industrial restructuring.
The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba
Author: Par KumaraswamiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137559403
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a hybrid activity between elite and mass culture, with inherent social, rather than aesthetic or political, value. Whilst many traditional studies of Cuban literature assume either its subjugation to politics and ideology or, conversely, its role in resisting political discourse via a rather naïve notion of artistic freedom, this project explores the varied, dynamic and multiple ways in which literature works in Cuban society: as a catalyst for identity construction aimed at consensus and belonging, but also as an instrument of self-differentiation and self-definition, even in the more recent context of a more market-oriented system. The study reviews policy from 1959 to the present, and presents contemporary case studies exploring the social functions of literature for writers, readers and ordinary Havana residents.