Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution : Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism / Joana Salém Vasconcelos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vasconcelos, Joana Salém, author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 249.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 249

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land reform--Cuba--History--20th century.

Land reform.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicate challenge of overcoming Latin America's underdevelopment condition, even though a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959's Revolution. The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s - the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime -, and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword- English Edition: Cuba's Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators

Foreword- Brazilian Edition

Tables, Charts, and Maps

Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976

Introduction: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism

1 Cuba: Agrarian Reform and Revolution

2 Theoretical and Methodological Notes

3 Historical Determinations of Underdevelopment

4 Why the Agrarian Structure

5 New Contradictions from the Revolutionary Process

6 Cuban Agrarian Reform Periodization

Chapter 1 Modernization of Cuban Plantation (1902-1958)

1 Latifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure

1.1 Between Latifundium and Minifundium

1.2 Origins of Structural Heterogeneity

1.3 Social Actors of Modern Plantation

2 Cropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street

2.1 Military Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation

2.2 Dance of the Millions

2.3 Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment

2.4 Ascension of Cuban Saccharocracy

3 Labor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds

3.1 Statistics Cover-Up

3.2 A Portrait of Rural Misery

3.3 Structural Unemployment and tiempo muerto

4 The World Seen from Above

4.1 Batista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan

4.2 A Portrait of Saccharocracy

5 Revolution against Underdevelopment

5.1 The Moncada Program

5.2 Revolutionary Democratic Nationalism

5.3 Sierra Maestra Law No.3

Chapter 2 First Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (1959-1963)

1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System

1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959

1.2 Nationalization Laws

1.3 A Portrait of Structural Transformation

2 Cooperatives or State Farms?

2.1 The Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation

2.2 Agricultural Cooperatives.

2.3 Granjas del Pueblo (People's Farm)

2.4 Converting Cooperatives into Granjas

3 Peasantry: Principle of Voluntarism and ANAP

3.1 ANAP Foundation and Its Principles

3.2 Mistakes Made with the Peasantry

3.3 ANAP's "Administrativism"

3.4 Politics of Voluntary Collectivisation

4 Agricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation

4.1 Neocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty

4.2 Increase of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity

4.3 Diversification: Searching for Economic Development

4.4 Structural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient

4.5 Intensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963

Chapter 3 Second Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (1963-1967)

1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963

1.2 Cyclone Flora

1.3 The Social Structure of the New Agriculture

1.4 A Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology

2 The Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox

2.1 The 1964 Agreement

2.2 Back to Sugar

2.3 Inserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency

2.4 Third World: Arena for National Sovereignty

3 Agrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization

3.1 Agrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments)

3.2 Aspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture

4 Specialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model

4.1 Crops Performance between 1964 and 1970

4.2 Combinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification

4.3 Peasantry and Special Plans

5 Technological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization

5.1 Investment and Consumption

5.2 Tiempo Muerto in Reverse: Disguised Unemployment

5.3 Paths and Detours of Technological Choice.

Chapter 4 The 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (1967-1970)

1 Agrarian Structure and Development Strategy

1.1 Import Substituting Industrialization

1.2 Turnpike Strategy: the Return of "Comparative Advantages"?

1.3 Why Ten Million?

2 Revolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy

2.1 Moral Economy and Ideological Centralization

2.2 Collective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control

2.3 The Shrinking of the Peasantry

3 The 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality

3.1 Simultaneous Battles

3.2 The Harvest in Numbers

3.3 Causes of Failure

3.4 Structural Distortions

4 Voluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion

4.1 Drop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman

4.2 Criticism of Volunteer Labor

4.3 The Militarization of Labor

4.4 Self-criticism

Chapter 5 Conclusion: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism

1 Geopolitical Advantage: the Source of Surplus

1.1 The Transfer of Soviet Resource

1.2 Multilateral Payment Agreement

1.3 Cold War and Geopolitical Advantages

1.4 Joining the COMECON

2 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible

2.1 From Segregation to Egalitarianism

2.2 Development of the Productive Forces

2.3 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible

Bibliography and Sources

Books and Articles

Speeches

Periódico Revolución

Revista Inra

Revista Cuba Socialista

Revista Economía Y Desarrollo

Revista Fundamentos

Revista Temas

Cuban Government Official Documents

ECLAC (CEPAL) and FAO

Interviews

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004515215

9004515216

OCLC:

1427667482