Cuban Communism 9th EditiIrving Louis Horowitz, Jaime Suchlicki Transaction Publishers - 894 páginas Forty-six essays, presented by avowedly anti-Castro editors and gathered mostly from US journals and books of the past couple decades, are organized into five sections devoted to the history, economy, society, military, and polity of Cuba. Some of the specific topics treated include: Cuban and Soviet relations; decentralization, local government, and participation; economic policies and strategies for the 1990s; the politics of sports; political and military relations; and forecasting institutional changes after Castro. In addition, two appendices present a chronology of the Cuban revolution from 1959 to 1998 and biographical essays on 19 revolutionary leaders. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Índice
Cuba The United States and Batista 19521958 | 3 |
The Sierra and the Plains | 13 |
Decentralization Local Government and Participation in Cuba | 30 |
Guerrillas at War | 44 |
Eisenhower Castro and the Soviets | 68 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited | 94 |
Immutable Proclamations and Unintended Consequences | 111 |
Cuba and the Soviet Union What Kind of Dependency? | 130 |
Cubas Refugees Manifold Migrations | 496 |
MILITARY | 519 |
PoliticalMilitary Relations from 1959 to the Present | 521 |
Human Rights and Military Rule in Cuba | 545 |
Military Origin and Evolution of the Cuban Revolution | 566 |
War of all the People Cubas Military Doctrines | 596 |
Political and Military Elites | 620 |
The Ochoa Affair and Its Aftermath | 632 |
Fidelismo The Unfulfilled Ideology | 162 |
ECONOMY | 175 |
Cubas Economic Policies and Strategies for the 1990s | 177 |
The Cuban Economy as Seen Through Its Trading Partners | 204 |
The Castro Regime Under the Bretton Woods System | 212 |
Cubas Socialist Economy The Mid1990s | 225 |
Labor Force and Education in Cuba | 257 |
Managing State Enterprises in Cuba | 275 |
Foreign Investment Opportunities in Cuba | 299 |
Challenges and Policy Imperatives to the Economy | 314 |
SOCIETY | 341 |
Higher Education and the Institutionalized Regime | 343 |
The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior | 365 |
Political Control and Cuban Youth | 392 |
Womens Rights and the Cuban Revolution | 406 |
Juvenile Delinquency in PostRevolutionary Cuba | 427 |
Journalism and Propaganda in the New Cuba | 446 |
Health Care in Cuba | 460 |
Revolutionary Defense Committees | 465 |
The Politics of Sports in Revolutionary Cuba | 475 |
The Cuban Armed Forces Changing Roles Continued Loyalties | 652 |
POLITY | 667 |
Why the Cuban Regime Has Not Fallen | 668 |
Cuba Without Subsidies | 676 |
Cubas Transition Institutional Lessons from Eastern Europe | 685 |
Cuba and the United States Back to the Beginning | 707 |
Actors Models and Endgames | 729 |
The Cuban Revolution and Its Acolytes | 740 |
Crises of the Castro Regime | 751 |
The USCuba Agenda Opportunity or Stalemate | 769 |
Cuba Beyond Castro | 778 |
After Fidel What? Forecasting Institutional Changes in Cuba | 785 |
Castros Legacy | 801 |
Political Pilgrimage and the End of Ideology | 812 |
APPENDICES | 819 |
Chronology of the Cuban Revolution 19591998 | 825 |
Current and Past Revolutionary Leaders | 852 |
Contributors to Cuban Communism Ninth Edition | 869 |
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The Future that Failed: Origins and Destinies of the Soviet Model Jóhann Páll Árnason No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1993 |