We Are Cuba! : How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World / Helen Yaffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaffe, Helen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuba--History--1990-.

Cuba.

Cuba--Foreign relations--1990-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The extraordinary account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled. Yaffe shows how Cuba has been gradually introducing select market reforms. While the government claims that these are necessary to sustain its socialist system, many others believe they herald a return to capitalism. Examining key domestic initiatives including the creation of one of the world's leading biotechnological industries, its energy revolution, and medical internationalism alongside recent economic reforms, Yaffe shows why the revolution will continue post-Castro. This is a fresh, compelling account of Cuba's socialist revolution and the challenges it faces today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction '¡Somos Cuba! ¡Somos Continuidad!'

1. The Challenge of (Socialist) Development

2. Surviving the Crisis: The Special Period

3. Fidel Castro's Citizens' Army: The Battle of Ideas

4. Power to the People: The Energy Revolution

5. The Curious Case of Cuba's Biotech Revolution

6. Cuban Medical Internationalism: An Army of White Coats

7. Cuba and the United States: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?

8. Raúl Castro's Reforms: Socialist Efficiency or Capitalist Opening?

9. The Cuban Tightrope: Between the Plan and the Market

10. Surviving into the Post-rapprochement Period

Interviews and Selected Talks

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24551-3

OCLC:

1149519863