Cuban Communism, 1959-2003

This new edition of a classic text which has come to be known as "the bible of Cuban Studies," emphasizes key issues of the 21st century. In addition to articles and essays that represent new developments in Cuba, the work boasts a database upgrade that makes it more important to students, scholars, and researchers.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xiii

Irving Louis Horowitz

Jaime Suchlicki

Part 1 History

One Hundred Years of Ambiguity: U.S.-Cuba Relations in the 20th Century

3

(9)

Irving Louis Horowitz

Cuba: The United States and Batista, 1952-1958

12

(9)

Hugh Thomas

The Sierra and the Plains

21

(15)

Roberto Luque Escalona

Guerrillas at War

36

(22)

Marta San Martin

Ramon L. Bonachea

Learning from the Missile Crisis

58

(11)

Max Frankel

Immutable Proclamations and Unintended Consequences

69

(17)

Luis E. Aguilar

Fidelismo: The Unfulfilled Ideology

86

(13)

Tad Szulc

Part 2 Economy

The Cuban Economy in 1999-2001: Evaluation of Performance

99

(23)

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Labor Conditions in Revolutionary Cuba

122

(12)

Efren Cordova

Eduardo Garcia Moure

The Political Economy of Caudillismo

134

(20)

Mary Katherine Crabb

Market-Oriented Marxism: Post-Cold War Transition in Cuba and Vietnam

154

(22)

Julie M. Bunck

Waiting for Godot: Cuba's Stalled Reforms and Continuing Economic Crisis

176

(22)

Jorge F. Perez Lopez

Cuba's Transition from Communism to Political and Economic Freedom

198

(12)

Antonio Jorge

Economic Organizations and Post-Castro Cuba

210

(15)

Ernesto F. Betancourt

Part 3 Society

Searching for Civil Society in Cuba

225

(16)

Damian J. Fernandez

The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior

241

(25)

Benigno E. Aguirre

The Internet and U.S. Policy toward Cuba

266

(10)

Taylor C. Boas

Women, Family and the Cuban Revolution

276

(27)

Marisela Fleites Lear

Health Care in Cuba

303

(5)

Tim Golden

Cuba's Refugees: Manifold Migrations

308

(21)

Silvia Pedraza

The Moral Basis of Cuban Society

329

(14)

Emilio Ichikawa Morin

Part 4 Military

Political-Military Relations from 1959 to the Present

343

(23)

Phyllis Greene Walker

Vanguard of the State: The Cuban Armed Forces in Transition

366

(22)

Juan Carlos Espinosa

Military Origin and Evolution of the Cuban Revolution

388

(27)

Irving Louis Horowitz

The Cuban Armed Forces: Changing Roles, Continued Loyalties

415

(13)

Juan M. del Aguila

Cuban Military Influences on Political and Economic Decision-Making

428

(7)

Jaime Suchlicki

Part 5 Polity

Why the Cuban Regime Has Not Fallen

435

(8)

Jorge I. Dominguez

Cuba: Without Subsidies

443

(8)

Jaime Suchlicki

Cuba: Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy

451

(20)

Susan Kaufman Purcell

Cuba and the United States: Back to the Beginning

471

(20)

Mark Falcoff

Much Ado About Something?: Regime Change in Cuba

491

(22)

Eusebio Mujal-Leon

Joshua W. Busby

The Cuban Revolution and Its Acolytes

513

(10)

Carlos Alberto Montaner

After Fidel, What?: Forecasting Institutional Changes in Cuba

523

(18)

Josep M. Colomer

Part 6 Transition to Civil Society

The United States and Cuba: Future Security Issues

541

(14)

Brian Latell

Role of the United States and International Lending Institutions in Cuba's Transition

555

(14)

Sergio Diaz-Briquets

Three Variations on Communist Successor Regimes

569

(21)

Edward Gonzalez

Festina Lente---The United States and Cuba After Castro

590

(17)

Michael Radu

Humanitarian Assistance during a Democratic Transition in Cuba

607

(13)

Andrew S. Natsios

Economic and Social Disparities in Cuba: Recommendations for Change

620

(109)

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

APPENDICES

I. Chronology of the Cuban Revolution: 1959--2002

637

(41)

II. Current and Past Revolutionary Leaders

678

(17)

III. Chronology of Cuba and the Middle East: 2000--2002

695

(4)

IV. Castro and Terrorism: Chronology and Glossary

699

(12)

V. Fidel Castro on the United States: Selected Statements, 1958-2003

711

(18)

Contributors

729

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