Revolution/Reform and Other Cuban Dilemmas

Hernández, Rafael

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“…The collapse of European communism in 1989-1991 dealt a heavy blow to Cubans' faith in socialism as an organizing ideology, spurring both a turn to religion and a surge in individualism as families struggled to make ends meet (Hernández 2010). The ensuing economic crisis of the "Special Period" witnessed a surge in inequality and a deterioration in the social services that were the pride of the Revolution.…”

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Cuba Emerging From Covid

LEOGRANDE,

HERSHBERG

2023

Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago)

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Cuba Emerging From Covid

LEOGRANDE,

HERSHBERG

2023

Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago)

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“…Nevertheless, that cognitive dissonance between ideology and reality did produce an ideological crisis. To survive, people had to act in more self-serving ways, eroding collective values and promoting individualism, as Rafael Hernández (2010) has described. The revival of religious faith is further evidence of this ideological crisis.…”

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The Ideological Challenges of Cuban Socialism

LeoGrande¹

2018

Latin American Perspectives

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As Cuba updates its economy by expanding the role of markets and the private sector, the issue of ideology is center stage. The Conceptualización del modelo económico y social cubano de desarrollo socialista unveiled at the Seventh Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in 2016 lays out a vision for a "sustainable and prosperous" socialism, but it incorporates elements of what appear to be two contending ideological positions within the leadership: the view that the reforms must go faster and farther in order to promote economic growth and the view that they should go more slowly to minimize the social and political costs of change. Thus the Conceptualización calls for the growth and juridical recognition of the private sector but only within a system in which state property is predominant and no one can accumulate wealth. It calls for expanding the role of markets but strictly regulating them within a system in which state planning directs the economy. It calls for wages to be proportionate to the productivity of work, though that will inevitably generate inequality, while promising that no one will be left behind. Despite their disparate subjects, all of the books under consideration here share an interest in the ideology of Cuba's revolutionary project-its origins, core values, challenges, and expression in everyday life. Steve Cushion sees the roots of Cuban socialism in the radicalism of the prerevolutionary labor movement led by the Popular Socialist Party (the pre-1959 communists). Katherine Gordy explores the revolution's core values of equality, nationalism, and political unity as their meaning and practice have evolved from the 1960s to the present. The contributors to the volume edited by Jorge I. Domínguez et al. examine the social impacts of Cuba's economic reforms, the challenge those reforms pose to core social values, and the government's policy response. Danielle

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“…Despite its shortcomings, Martínez-Fernández's history shares broad themes in common with those of Pérez and Guerra: that the early years of the revolution were marked by "heroic idealism" (46); that popular support for the regime was reinforced by policies that benefited much of the population (52); and that U.S. hostility proved counterproductive, enflaming Cuban nationalism (98). All three see the Special Period as not only a profound economic hardship but a profound ideological crisis as well-a turning point in the relationship between the state and the people (a point that the Cuban writer Rafael Hernández [2010] has eloquently made as well). For Guerra, it was the final blow to the revolution's "narrative of redemption" after the disillusionment of the 10-million-ton harvest in 1970.…”

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Cien Años de Lucha: Narratives of Cuba’s Revolutionary History

LeoGrande¹

2016

Latin American Perspectives

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"Revolution means. .. changing everything that must be changed," said Fidel Castro on May 1, 2000. This slogan has become the watchword for the far-reaching changes under way since 2008, when Raúl Castro succeeded Fidel as president. 1 In 2011 Cuba embarked upon a fundamental reorganization of the economy as outlined in the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, 2011). Then on December 17, 2014, President Castro and President Barack Obama stunned the world by announcing their agreement to begin normalizing U.S.-Cuban relations, setting aside half a century of hostility. Although only one of the books reviewed here deals directly with this torrent of change, all cast light on the historical trajectory that brought Cuba to this contemporary conjuncture. Lamrani and Morais chronicle some of the final battles of the cold war in the Caribbean-Lamrani attacking what he sees as the ideological war against the revolution and Morais narrating the inside story of the Cuban Five. Pérez surveys the long arc of Cuban history to understand how the idea of Cuban nationhood set the stage for revolution, and Guerra dissects the revolution's own "grand narrative" to understand how an insurrection against a hated dictator became a socialist revolution that changed everything. Martínez-Fernández offers a more traditional take on the history of the revolution, citing Cuba's penchant for caudillos and Castro's Machiavellianism to explain its survival in the face of U.S. hostility. Ritter and Henken examine the political economy of the revolution's uneasy relationship with small business, focusing

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Revolution/Reform and Other Cuban Dilemmas

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Cuba Emerging From Covid

Cuba Emerging From Covid

The Ideological Challenges of Cuban Socialism

Cien Años de Lucha: Narratives of Cuba’s Revolutionary History

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