Cuban Communism/8th EditiIrving Louis Horowitz Transaction Publishers, 1 janv. 1995 - 873 pages 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 |
Table des matières
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Eisenhower Castro and the Soviets | 79 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited | 105 |
Immutable Proclamations and Unintended Consequences | 123 |
Cuba and the Soviet Union What Kind of Dependency? | 141 |
25 Revolutionary Defense Committees | 489 |
26 Literacy Yes Books No | 499 |
27 Writers and Artists in Todays Cuba | 509 |
Militaty | 525 |
PoliticalMilitary Relations from 1959 to the Present | 527 |
The Cuban Military in Angola | 551 |
Military Origin and Evolution of the Cuban Revolution | 569 |
War of all the People Cubas Military Doctrines | 599 |
Fidelismo The Unfulfilled Ideology | 173 |
Economy | 185 |
Cubas Economic Policies and Strategies for the 1990s | 187 |
Interdependence and Economic Performance in Cuba | 215 |
Cubas Agrarian Productivity | 223 |
Cubas Underground Economy | 245 |
Labor Force and Education in Cuba | 271 |
Managing State Enterprises in Cuba | 289 |
Ideology Planning Change and NoGrowth | 313 |
Challenges and Policy Imperatives to the Economy | 337 |
Society | 363 |
Higher Education and the Institutionalized Regime | 365 |
The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior | 387 |
20 Political Control and Cuban Youth | 413 |
Womens Rights and the Cuban Revolution | 427 |
Juvenile Delinquency in PostRevolutionary Cuba | 449 |
Journalism and Propaganda in the New Cuba | 469 |
24 Health Care in Cuba | 483 |
Political and Military Elites | 623 |
The Ochoa Affair and its Aftermath | 629 |
Human Rights and Military Rule in Cuba | 667 |
Polity | 689 |
Why the Cuban Regime Has Not Fallen | 691 |
To Fall or Not to Fall? | 699 |
Cubas Cloudy Future | 713 |
Love Hate and Death | 729 |
Cuba Adrift in a PostCommunist World | 739 |
Myths and Realities in USCuban Relations | 761 |
The Cuban Revolution and Its Acolytes | 771 |
Crises of the Castro Regime | 783 |
Two Faces of Fidel Don Quixote and Captain Ahab | 803 |
The End of the Road | 823 |
Castros Legacy | 849 |
EPILOGUE | 861 |
Contributors | 865 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Fréquemment cités
Page 121 - See, for example, Graham T. Allison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971, pp.
Page 595 - What we would be left with is a propagandist punto dc vista where Castrology reigns supreme. The attempt to offer moral justification for the present militarization of Cuba is difficult enough to live with, but any effort to provide an ideological denial of what has become apparent to friends and foes of the regime alike must be considered entirely unacceptable. Notes for Part I 1 . Regis Debray. Revolution in the Revolution? (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967). 2. Fidel Castro. "Interview Andrew...
Page 425 - Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy of Socialista Cuba, A Two-Decade Appraisal (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981), p. 189. 22. Sergio Diaz-Briquets, "The Cuban Labor Force in 1981 and Beyond.
Page 572 - Of course, if we stopped at the Pico Turquino [a height in the Sierra Maestra] when we were very weak and said 'We are Marxist-Leninists' we might not have been able to descend from the Pico Turquino to the plain. Thus we called it something else, we did not broach this subject, we raised other questions that the people understood...
Page 114 - September, and it was not drawn in a way which was intended to leave the Soviets any ambiguity to play with. I believe the President drew the line precisely where he thought the Soviets were not and would not be...
Page 514 - ... of a bad-smelling corpse; in art, its present decadence. But why endeavor to seek in the frozen forms of socialist realism the only valid recipe? "Freedom...
Page 566 - ... to the Secretary-General, Reaffirming the legal responsibility of the United Nations over Namibia, 1 . Approves the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the proposal for a settlement of the Namibian situation and his explanatory statement; 2.
Page 36 - Revolutions are most likely to occur when a prolonged period of objective economic and social development is followed by a short period of sharp...