Susan Eckstein describes how and explains 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.
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This important book . . . is an ambitious attempt to provide a broad overview of Cuba under the Castro regime. . . . It makes for very sober reading that specialists and policymakers should take note of.
(Foreign Affairs )
On the whole, the image of the hero [Castro] and his rescued island had been replaced by that of a tyrant and a subjugated kingdom; neither image, though--as Eckstein shows--truly reflects the complex facts. In any history of present-day Cuba, Castro must emerge as the protagonist, and Back from the Future provides a wealth of information that allows the reader to make some sense of the man.
(Alberto Manguel The Times Literary Supplement )
(Foreign Affairs )
On the whole, the image of the hero [Castro] and his rescued island had been replaced by that of a tyrant and a subjugated kingdom; neither image, though--as Eckstein shows--truly reflects the complex facts. In any history of present-day Cuba, Castro must emerge as the protagonist, and Back from the Future provides a wealth of information that allows the reader to make some sense of the man.
(Alberto Manguel The Times Literary Supplement )
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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 )
(Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College )
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CUBA IS AN ISLAND of some ten million people, only ninety miles from the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
push for communism, world medical power, military internationalism, family doctor program, professional construction workers, medical cadre, charismatic rule, medical delivery system, civilian assistance, rectification process, world sugar prices, special period, overseas involvements, hard currency debt, revolution within the revolution, private farmers, rationed goods, ration system, health tourism, sugar sector, independent farming, wage reform, moral incentives, moral campaign Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Latin American, United States, Third World, Cold War, Popular Power, Party Congress, East European, Central American, Communist Party, Pan American Games, Castro's Cuba, Food Program, Soviet-bloc Communism, Bay of Pigs, Central Committee, Council of State, Revolutionary Offensive, Maurice Bishop, Old Regime, President Carter, Said Castro, South American, Cuban Democracy Act, Eastern Europe New!
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CUBA IS AN ISLAND of some ten million people, only ninety miles from the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
push for communism, world medical power, military internationalism, family doctor program, professional construction workers, medical cadre, charismatic rule, medical delivery system, civilian assistance, rectification process, world sugar prices, special period, overseas involvements, hard currency debt, revolution within the revolution, private farmers, rationed goods, ration system, health tourism, sugar sector, independent farming, wage reform, moral incentives, moral campaign Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Latin American, United States, Third World, Cold War, Popular Power, Party Congress, East European, Central American, Communist Party, Pan American Games, Castro's Cuba, Food Program, Soviet-bloc Communism, Bay of Pigs, Central Committee, Council of State, Revolutionary Offensive, Maurice Bishop, Old Regime, President Carter, Said Castro, South American, Cuban Democracy Act, Eastern Europe New!
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- Cuba: The International Dimension by Georges A. Fauriol on 6 pages
- History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro on 6 pages
- Cuba After Thirty Years: Rectification and the Revolution by Richard Gillespie on 5 pages
- Cuba: The Test of Time by Jean Stubbs on 5 pages
- Statistical Abstract of Latin America (Statistical Abstract of Latin America) Volume 38 by James W. Wilkie on 4 pages
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- The Cuban Revolution: Past, Present and Future Perspectives by Geraldine Lievesley on 4 pages
- The History of Cuba (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Clifford L. Staten on page 106, page 122, and Back Matter
- The History of Cuba (Palgrave Essential Histories) by Clifford L. Staten on page 107, page 123, and Back Matter
- Fidel Castro: A Biography by Volker Skierka in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers) by Aviva Chomsky on page 607, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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