Caviar with Rum Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience

No country in Latin America has escaped the symbolic influence of the United States to the extent that Revolutionary Cuba has. This resistance meant that for approximately three decades the Soviet Union had an invitation to intervene in practically all Cuban spheres. Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited these days and what this means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

Jacqueline Loss is an associate professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her publications include Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of place and the co-edited collection New Short Fiction from Cuba. Dreaming in Russian: The Soviet Cuban Imaginary is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. Jos Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including the internationally acclaimed Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia and the books Livadia, Rex, and El tartamudo y la rusa. Voz humana is forthcoming. He is an associate professor at Seton Hall University.