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Back From the Future – Cuba Under Castro - Hardcover

Eckstein, Susan Eva

 
9780691034454: Back From the Future – Cuba Under Castro
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691034451 ISBN 13: 9780691034454
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is author of The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico (Princeton).

From the Back Cover

"A rich analysis of the Cuban revolution. Susan Eckstein's book is more balanced, integrated, and penetrating than many previous texts and has the potential of being the single best overall interpretation of the Cuban revolution. Eckstein delivers a comprehensive and insightful interpretation of Castro's Cuba."--Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691034451
ISBN 13 
9780691034454
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
308