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Sandor Halebsky is professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He co-edited Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation (Westview Press 1992). Richard L. Harris is chair of the faculty at Golden Gate University in Monterey, California. He is one of the coordinating editors of the journal Latin American Perspectives and the author of Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (WestviewPress 1992).
Cuba in Transition
by Halebsky, Sandor; Kirk, John M.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-04-01
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Search for Political and Organizational Forms | |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Cuban Socialism: Rectification and the New Model of Accumulation | p. 15 |
| The Rectification Process Revisited: Cuba's Defense of Traditional Marxism-Leninism | p. 37 |
| Democracy and Socialist Cuba | p. 55 |
| Bureaucracy Versus Democracy in Contemporary Cuba: An Assessment of Thirty Years of Organizational Development | p. 77 |
| Whither the Cuban Economy? | |
| Introduction | p. 99 |
| Cuba's Socialist Economy at Thirty: Assessments and Prospects | p. 107 |
| Cuba in the 1990s: Economic Reorientation and International Reintegration | p. 115 |
| Beyond Basic Needs: Cuba's Search for Stable Development in the 1990s | p. 137 |
| Everyday Life in Contemporary Cuba | |
| Introduction | p. 155 |
| The Problems of Single Motherhood in Cuba | p. 161 |
| Sexuality and Socialism in Cuba | p. 177 |
| Race, Culture, and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba | p. 193 |
| Cuban Political Culture: Between Betrayal and Death | p. 207 |
| About the Book | p. 229 |
| About the Editors and Contributors | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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