Back from the Future
Cuba under Castro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9826111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Maxwell (0009-0004-7091-6855, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 174 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Back From the Future: Cuba under Castro, Susan Eva Eckstein, 2004 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20046980 |
| OpenAlex | W2326897398 |
| Language | EN |
This study describes why Cuban communism has been misperceived and misunderstood abroad. Concealed behind Marxist-Leninist rhetoric and Castro's autocratic single-party rule has been a government promoting a cradle-to-grave welfare state, tolerating market reforms, foreign investment, Western trade and hard currency internationalism. Not only has Castro's Cuba been less ideologically driven by Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy than has heretofore been believed, it also has been less omnipotent. Drawing on interviews, personal observations, and primary sources, this book demonstrates the need for a revisionist view of Cuba and, by implication, other Communist regimes
Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Political science · Cuban History and Society
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The Personal Is Political
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Les redéfinitions d'une révolution
Religious 'Speculation
Assembling the Historic City
The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society
Immigration and the metropolis
Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values
Jail-house Rock
A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
Lessons of the Special Period
Whither Cuban Socialism
On Grand Surprises and Modest Certainties
“Catching Hell”
Revolução, Voltas E Reveses
Between Cosmopolitanism and the National Slot
Negotiating desirability and material resources
Mortality Decline in Cuba, 1900-1959
Money and the Morality of Commensuration
‘La Lenin is my passport’
Street Rhythms and the Revolution
Mojitos com limões do campo
Forjando democracia
Fascinans' or 'tremendum'? Permutations of the state, the body, and the divine in late-twentieth-century Havana
Transforming ideology into heritage
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Cuba
Reinforcing participatory democracy in Cuba
Communicating authoritarian elite cohesion
Local government in Cuba
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Grounding Immigrant Generations in History
Charismatic Authority and Leadership Change
Bureaucratic socialism in reform mode
Minding the Undertow
Una revolución es una fuerza más poderosa que la naturaleza”
Socialism in Cuba
Economic change in Cuba
Anthropology that warms your heart
Women, Work, and Revolution
Bridging theories of social and revolutionary movements
Inmigración y metrópolis
Defining the Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality
The Long Misunderstanding
The international dimension of authoritarian regime legitimation
Private pleasures
Baseball in the breach
Scale Urban Agriculture in Havana and the Reproduction of the ‘New Man’ in Contemporary Cuba
Remittances and Their Unintended Consequences in Cuba
Books in review
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Global Economy, Local Politics
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| Highly cited | No |
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