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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450385803321

Autore

Eckstein Susan <1942-, >

Titolo

Back from the future : Cuba under Castro / / Susan Eva Eckstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-93606-4

0-415-94793-6

1-280-05286-4

0-203-49167-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

338.97291

Soggetti

Communism - Cuba

Electronic books.

Cuba Social policy

Cuba Economic policy

Cuba Politics and government 1959-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ABBREVIATIONS; The Limits and Possibilities of Socialism; The ~Push for Communism~ and the ~Retreat to Socialism~: 1959 to 1985; The Late 1980s Campaign to ~Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies~ Socialist Renegade or Retrograde in the Era of Perestroika?; From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary: The 1990s ~Special Period in Peacetime~; The Irony of Success: Social Accomplishments and Their Unintended Consequences

~A Maximum of Ruralism, a Minimum of Urbanism~: From Idealism to RealismInternationalism; The Relevance of the Revolution; Epilogue: Dollarization and its Discontents in the Post-Soviet Era; TABLES; NOTES; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

This updated, second edition contains a new epilogue by the author that covers the last decade, including such newsworthy events as the Elian Gonzalez controversy and the growing immigrant community of



Cuban-Americans in Florida.