Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism (Contemporary Cuba)

"A classic on post-Cold War Cuba. . . . Azicri evidences Cuba’s expanding external relations with the papacy, the Economic Union, and Latin America and argues that Cuba has begun internal changes that could later create an all-national rather than a solely communist party. . . . This work is essential reading for D.C., Havana, and Miami--and is likely to anger all three."--Choice
"A masterful and provocative summary, analysis, and evaluation of political, economic, and cultural developments in Cuba, as well as the international relations of Cuba, in the tumultuous decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the process, Azicri gives a unique insight into how and why Cuban socialism, though greatly modified in the 1990s, continues to survive."--Sinan Koont, Dickinson College
Unlikely to gratify those with strong views on either side of the political divide, Azicri’s study provides an intelligent, scholarly response to the current questions posed by the Cuban Revolution.
Covering the turbulent period of the 1990s, the book examines such issues as the impact on Cuba of the Soviet Union's collapse, the country’s social malaise under economic scarcity, the reorganization of its economy, changes in its political system, problems in its relations with the United States, and the renaissance of Cuban religious life in the aftermath of the pope's visit.
 Azicri offers an objectively researched study that addresses many of the assumptions made by partisan participants. Demonstrating how Cuba's ongoing reform process has allowed it to avoid the fate of other Soviet bloc regimes, he maintains that Havana has continually reinvented the nature of Cuban socialism. Drawing on original sources and scholarly studies from Cuba, the United States, and elsewhere, he argues that a more restrained and limited socialism is suitable to today's Cuba and explains why such a system probably will prevail beyond Castro.
Max Azicri, professor of political science at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Cuba: Politics, Economics and Society and of numerous articles on Cuban politics, society, culture, and international relations.

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Azicri, Max

Americas

University Press of Florida

The history, society and political experience of Cuba from the colonial period to Castro’s regime are here presented in a brief but scholarly analysis. The achievements and shortcomings of Cuban socialism are significant for students of Marxist regimes.The changes in society noted here include policies aimed at eliminating racism, the emergence of a new family structure, changing marriage and divorce rates and internal and external migration. The ruling Cuban Communist Party is examined in detail—its leadership, membership and congresses up to the late 1980s. The 1976 Constitution, Organs of People’s Power at the national, provincial and municipal levels, elections, and the mass organizations are described. Two chapters are devoted to the economy—the major changes introduced by the new regime after 1959, the record of the 1960s and 1970s, and the problems faced by Cuba in the 1980s.Analyses of the regime’s domestic policies and international relations are presented, and a concluding chapter weaves together a succinct portrait of the state which has exerted an outstanding influence on Latin America and the Third World in general since the revolution in 1959.Notes, Bibliography, and Index included.

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