Susan Eva Eckstein

Back from the Future

Cuba under Castro

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Produktbeschreibung

Susan Eckstein describes how and explains why Cuban Communism has been misperceived and misunderstood abroad. Concealed behind Marxist-Leninist rhetoric and Castro's autocratic single-party rule has been a government promoting a cradle-to-grave welfare state, tolerating market reforms, foreign investment, Western trade, and hard currency "internationalism." Not only has Castro's Cuba been less ideologically driven by Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy than has heretofore been believed, it also has been less omnipotent.

Review:
... This important book . . . is an ambitious attempt to provide a broad overview of Cuba under the Castro regime. . . . It makes for very sober reading that specialists and policymakers should take note of. (Foreign Affairs)

... On the whole, the image of the hero [Castro] and his rescued island had been replaced by that of a tyrant and a subjugated kingdom; neither image, though--as Eckstein shows--truly reflects the complex facts. In any history of present-day Cuba, Castro must emerge as the protagonist, and Back from the Future provides a wealth of information that allows the reader to make some sense of the man. Alberto Manguel(The Times Literary Supplement)

Table of contents:




List of Tables





Preface





Abbreviations



Ch. 1
The Limits and Possibilities of Socialism
3

Ch. 2
The "Push for Communism" and the "Retreat to Socialism": 1959 to 1985
31

Ch. 3
The Late 1980s Campaign to "Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies": Socialist Renegade or Retrograde in the Era of Perestroika?
60

Ch. 4
From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary: The 1990s "Special Period in Peacetime"
88

Ch. 5
The Irony of Success: Social Accomplishments and Their Unintended Consequences
128

Ch. 6
"A Maximum of Ruralism, a Minimum of Urbanism": From Idealism to Realism
149

Ch. 7
Internationalism
171

Ch. 8
The Relevance of the Revolution
204



Appendix : Tables
219



Notes
233



Index
277

"A rich analysis of the Cuban revolution. Susan Eckstein's book is more balanced, integrated, and penetrating than many previous texts and has the potential of being the single best overall interpretation of the Cuban revolution. Eckstein delivers a comprehensive and insightful interpretation of Castro's Cuba."--Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691029870
• ISBN-10: 0691029873
• Artikelnr.: 21373756

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF TABLES PREFACE FOR THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER ONE THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIALISM CHAPTER
TWO THE PUSH FOR COMMUNISM AND THE RETREAT TO SOCIALISM: 1959 TO 1985
CHAPTER THREE THE LATE 1980S CAMPAIGN TO RECTIFY ERRORS AND NEGATIVE
TENDENCIES: SOCIALIST RENEGADE OR RETROGRADE IN THE ERA OF PERESTROIKA?
CHAPTER FOUR FROM COMMUNIST SOLIDARITY TO COMMUNIST SOLITARY: THE 1990S
SPECIAL PERIOD IN PEACETIME CHAPTER FIVE THE IRONY OF SUCCESS: SOCIAL
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THEIR UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER SIX A MAXIMUM OF
RURALISM, A MINIMUM OF URBANISM: FROM IDEALISM TO REALISM CHAPTER SEVEN
INTERNATIONALISM CHAPTER EIGHT THE RELEVANCE OF THE REVOLUTION CHAPTER
NINE: EPILOGUE: DOLLARIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN THE POST SOVIET ERA
Appendix: Tables Notes Index