Transformation and Struggle: Cuba Faces the 1990s

by Sandor Halebsky, John Kirk

Overview

This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, it offers a positive account. Yet, it is sensitive to the dilemmas and flawed strategies in Cuba's thirty-year process of transformation. It warns that no preconceived notion of state or of development will help grasp the multifaceted nature of this nation, which reflects aspects of both developed and underdeveloped nations. Seventeen chapters, five of which are from Cuban contributors, thoroughly investigate recent political, economic, and social changes as well as the successes and failures of long-term development policies. Heavy attention is paid to the rectification process launched by Castro in 1986.

This volume portrays a Cuba facing the 1990s with a burst of increased vigor in its efforts to secure continued far-reaching transformation. Seventeen chapters describe major changes in the economic realm caught up in the rectification campaign; a slow process of liberalization in the political sphere; and a Cuba that, in social terms, is far better off than any other Latin American country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275932275
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/09/1990
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

SANDOR HALEBSKY is Professor of Sociology at St. Mary's University and is co-editor of Cuba: Twenty Five Years of Revolution.

JOHN M. KIRK is Professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University and is co-editor of Cuba: Twenty Five Years of Revolution.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Political: State, Society, and the Citizen
The Cuban Rectification: Safeguarding the Revoluton While Building the Future by Max Azicri
Socialism and Democracy: Some Thoughts after 30 Years of Revolution in Cuba by Marifefi Pérez-Stable
The Matter of Democracy in Cuba: Snapshots of Three Moments by Carollee Bengelsdorf
The Changing Role of Law in Revolutionary Cuba by Debra Evenson
Human Rights in Cuba: Politics and Ideology by Tony Platt and Ed McCaughan
The Economy: Productivity, Development, and Equity
The Cuban Economy: A Current Assessment by José Luis Rodríguez
Agricultural Policy with Social Justice and Development by Eugenio R. Balari
Agricultural Production Cooperatives and Cuban Socialism: New Approaches to Agricultural Development by Mieke Meurs
Cuba's Economic Diversification: Progress and Shotcomings by Andrew Zimbalist
Some Reflections on the Cuban Economic Model by Claes Brundenius
The Supply of Consumer Goods in Cuba by Eugenio R. Balari
The Social: Systems of Relationship, Status, and Social Services
The Cuban Family in the 1980s by Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula
Cuba's New Professionals by Frank T. Fitzgerald
The Changing Class Structure in the Development of Socialism in Cuba by Mayra Espina Prieto and Lilia Núñez Moreno
The Catholic Faith and Revolution in Cuba: Contradictions and Understanding by Aurelio Alons Tejada
Cuban Housing Policy by Jill Hamberg
Whither Cuban Medicine? Challenges for the Next Generation by Sarah M. Santana
Selected Bibliography
Index