People And State In Socialist Cuba

Author : Marina Gold
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137539836
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and State in Socialist Cuba written by Marina Gold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a political and anthropological analysis of the concept of Revolution as it is understood and experienced by Cubans in their daily lives. Urban agricultural movements, alternative medicine, self-employment, and migration reveal complex interactions and disrupt assumptions that the Cuban sate is a static, anachronistic regime.

Author : Marina Gold
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349568499
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and State in Socialist Cuba written by Marina Gold and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a political and anthropological analysis of the concept of Revolution as it is understood and experienced by Cubans in their daily lives. Urban agricultural movements, alternative medicine, self-employment, and migration reveal complex interactions and disrupt assumptions that the Cuban sate is a static, anachronistic regime.

Author : Mona Rosendahl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801484124
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Revolution written by Mona Rosendahl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years, Inside the Revolution offers a rare, close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen months of fieldwork, in a municipality she calls by the fictional name Palmera, to present a vivid account of the lives and thoughts of residents, many of whom have lived inside the revolution for more than thirty-five years. In Palmera, support for the socialist program remains strong. Rosendahl attributes continuing loyalty to four conditions: improvements in the standard of living from 1959 to 1990, the uniformity and omnipresence of political communications from the government, a historical emphasis on local participation in the revolution, and the consistency of revolutionary ideals with traditional machista expectations and practices. Through an analysis of ideology and practice in contemporary Cuba, Rosendahl documents how its citizens support the present political system, and how reciprocal economics between households and ideas about gender both reinforce and challenge that system. Rosendahl also explains how those who oppose state socialism resist participation in society through inaction or withdrawal.

Author : Helen Yaffe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245513
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Cuba! written by Helen Yaffe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled. Yaffe shows how Cuba has been gradually introducing select market reforms. While the government claims that these are necessary to sustain its socialist system, many others believe they herald a return to capitalism. Examining key domestic initiatives including the creation of one of the world’s leading biotechnological industries, its energy revolution, and medical internationalism alongside recent economic reforms, Yaffe shows why the revolution will continue post-Castro. This is a fresh, compelling account of Cuba’s socialist revolution and the challenges it faces today.

Author : Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604880229
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism and Man in Cuba written by Ernesto Che Guevara and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his experience as a central leader of the Cuban Revolution, Guevara explains why the revolutionary transformation of social relations necessarily involves the transformation of the working people organizing and leading that process. "To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man." Includes Castro's 1987 speech on the 20th anniversary of Guevara's death.Photos. Now with index and enlarged type.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Cuban Revolution in World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Socialism written by Fidel Castro and published by Cuban Revolution in World. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and social progress is not only possible without the dog-eat-dog competition of capitalism, but socialism remains the only way forward for humanity. He describes the decisive place of Cuban volunteer combatants in the final stage of the struggle in Angola against the invasion forces of the South African apartheid regime. Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, map, notes, index.

Author : Leo Huberman
Publisher : New York : [Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism in Cuba written by Leo Huberman and published by New York : [Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the socialist economic administration of Cuba - examines the economic structure, social changes undergone since the revolution, government policy in respect of education and general welfare (incl. Health services), the impact of agrarian reform and of technological change, the importance of economic diversification, the exploitation of natural resources, etc. Diagrams and statistical tables.

Author : Katherine Gordy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121022
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Ideology in Cuba written by Katherine Gordy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living Ideology in Cuba, Katherine Gordy demonstrates how the Cuban state and its people engage in an ongoing negotiation that produces a “living ideology.” In contrast to official slogans and fiats, Cuba’s living ideology is a decentralized phenomenon, continually adapting, informing, and responding to daily life, without losing sight of the fundamental national principles of socioeconomic equality, unified leadership, and inclusive nationalism. Tracing Cuba’s ideological history, Gordy first looks at the ways in which the 19th century wars of independence and the 1959 revolution were used as the basis for both challenging and legitimizing Cuban socialism. Following the embrace of a pure socialist ideology in the 1960s, state policies of the 1970s became more accommodating of market imperatives, while still holding on to the principles articulated by Che Guevara and Karl Marx. In the 1990s, the Cuban people themselves pushed back against further economic reforms, reasserting the value of socioeconomic equality. Gordy also examines ideological debates among intellectuals, from the controversy sparked by Fidel Castro’s “Words to the Intellectuals” speech to the demand in the 1990s for a separation between academia and the state—not to safeguard academia from politics, but to ensure that academics as such could contribute to the political dialogue.

Author : Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780873485777
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism and Man in Cuba written by Ernesto Che Guevara and published by Pathfinder Press (NY). This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guevara's best-known presentation of the political tasks and challenges in leading the transition from capitalism to socialism. Includes Castro's 1987 speech on the 20th anniversary of Guevara's death.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Fidel Castro Speeches
ISBN 13 : 9780873486507
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fidel Castro Speeches written by Fidel Castro and published by Fidel Castro Speeches. This book was released on 1981 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speeches spanning more than two decades trace the fight of the revolutionary vanguard to deepen the proletarian course of the Cuban revolution.