This timely and provocative study provides a reexamination of the Cuban revolution and places it firmly in a historical context. Beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 and addressing Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959, The Cuban Revolution highlights the
factors that made Cuba susceptible to revolution, including its one-crop (sugar) economy and U.S. interference in Cuban affairs. While identifying radical nationalism - the defense of national sovereignty and social justice - as a legitimate factor behind the revolution, author Marifeli Pérez-Stable
also provides insight into the problems facing Castro's Cuba.
Arguing that the revolution actually ended in 1970, she blames its defeat on the regime's profitable yet doomed dependence on the Soviet Union. She further charges that Cuba's leaders failed to diversify the economy, to
sustain development, or to create democratic institutions. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American history and politics, The Cuban Revolution, Third Edition, offers students fresh insights into contemporary Cuba.
Contents
Tables
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acronyms
1. Mediated Sovereignty, Monoculture, and Development
Classic Dependence in Crisis
Reformism in the Making, 1927-1958
State and Society
Standards of Living
Women
in Prerevolutionary Cuba
The Cuba That Might Have Been
2. The First Republic
Politics at the Dawn of Independence
The War of 1895 Comes to an End
The Civic March (April 20-May 11, 1902)
Critical Junctures in the First Republic
The 1905-1906 Reelection Crisis
Mario
Garc¡a Menocal's Counterfeit Reelection in 1916
Gerardo Machado's Election in 1924 and the Cooperativismo of 1928
A Mobilized Society
The Revolution of 1933
3. The Second Republic
Constitutional Democracy, 1940-1952
The Coup of March 10, 1952 and the Mainstream
Opposition
The November 1, 1954 Elections and Their Aftermath
The Batistato and Cuban Society
The Working Class
The Opposition
Cuban Society: A House of Cards
The Malestar Difuso as Breeding Ground for Radicalism
4. Revolution and Radical Nationalism,
1959-1961
Reformism, the Clases Econ¢micas, and the Revolution
The Working Class and the Revolutionary Government
Revolutionary Politics and the Clases Populares
5. Politics and Society, 1961-1970
The Incipient Institutional Order, 1961-1965
The Formation of a Vanguard
Party
Unions, Workers, and Conciencia
The Federation of Cuban Women
The United States, Cuba, and Cuban Exiles
The Origins of the Radical Experiment
The Parallel Construction of Communism and Socialism
The Withering Away of Trade Unions
The Politics of Mobilization
The
1970 Watershed
6. Politics and Society, 1971-1986
Revolution and Institutionalization
The Trade Unions as Mass Organizations
Workers and the Economy
Workers and Management
The Federation of Cuban Women and Gender Equality
Women and Work
The PCC as a Vanguard
Party
Crossroads at Three Party Congresses
7. Rectification and Reconstitution, 1986-1998
The Process of Rectification
The Economics of Rectification
The Politics of Rectification
The Cuban Communist Party as the Cold War Ended
The CTC and the FMC in the Rectification
Process
The Fourth Party Congress
Mobilizational Politics and the Cuban Economy
Political Trends of the Special Period
The Character of Cuban Elites
Reforming Popular Power Assemblies
The Role of the Military
The Dynamics of Popular Support, Quiescence, and
Opposition
8. Mobilizational Politics Redux and Ra£l Castro's Cuba
Cuba and the World
The United States
The Bush Administration
The Obama Administration
The International Community
Cuba Isn't Isolated
Mobilizational Politics Redux
The Comandante Steps
Aside
Ra£l Castro's Cuba
Politics as Usual?
Economic Reforms
The Sixth Party Congress
Notes
Index
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Marifeli Pérez-Stable is Professor of Sociology at Florida International University. She is the editor of the forthcoming reader, Looking Forward: Cuba's Pending Transition in Comparative Perspective (University of Notre Dame Press). Her works in progress include a political biography of
Fidel Castro (Polity Press) and Intimate Enemies: the United States and Cuba after the Cold War(Routledge).Dr. P.rez-Stable chaired the Task Force on Memory, Truth, and Justice which published the report, Cuban National Reconciliation, in April 2003 (http://memoria.fiu.edu). She is the director of
National Dialogues on Democracy in Latin America,a project sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue with the cooperation of the Organization of American States. She is an editorial contributor to the Miami Herald and Tiempos del Mundo. H er opinion pieces have appeared in El Pa¡s (Spain), El Clar¡n
(Argentina), Excelsior (Mexico), El Nuevo Herald, The New Republic, and The Nation
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
Cuba - Louis Perez, Jr.
Modern Latin America - Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith and James N. Green
The Caribbean - Franklin W. Knight
