Cuba in Transition

by Halebsky, Sandor; Kirk, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780813380957
• ISBN10: 0813380952
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Author Biography

Sandor Halebsky is professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He co-edited Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation (Westview Press 1992). Richard L. Harris is chair of the faculty at Golden Gate University in Monterey, California. He is one of the coordinating editors of the journal Latin American Perspectives and the author of Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (WestviewPress 1992).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Search for Political and Organizational Forms
Introduction	p. 11
Cuban Socialism: Rectification and the New Model of Accumulation	p. 15
The Rectification Process Revisited: Cuba's Defense of Traditional Marxism-Leninism	p. 37
Democracy and Socialist Cuba	p. 55
Bureaucracy Versus Democracy in Contemporary Cuba: An Assessment of Thirty Years of Organizational Development	p. 77
Whither the Cuban Economy?
Introduction	p. 99
Cuba's Socialist Economy at Thirty: Assessments and Prospects	p. 107
Cuba in the 1990s: Economic Reorientation and International Reintegration	p. 115
Beyond Basic Needs: Cuba's Search for Stable Development in the 1990s	p. 137
Everyday Life in Contemporary Cuba
Introduction	p. 155
The Problems of Single Motherhood in Cuba	p. 161
Sexuality and Socialism in Cuba	p. 177
Race, Culture, and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba	p. 193
Cuban Political Culture: Between Betrayal and Death	p. 207
About the Book	p. 229
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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