A contemporary Cuba reader: reinventing the Revolution

Preface

Introduction: History as Prologue : Cuba before the Special Period / Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jimenez, John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande

The Revolutionary and Political Content of Fidel Castro's Charismatic Authority / Nelson P. Valdesy

July 26. History Absolved Him. Now What

Saul Landau

Cuban Politics

Editors' Introduction

The Cuban Nation's Single Party : The Communist Party of Cuba Faces the Future / William M. LeoGrande

Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces: Last Bulwark of the State, Last Bulwark of the Revolution / Hal Klepak

On Cuban Democracy : Cuba and the Democratic Culture / Raphael Hernandez

Successes and Failures of a Decentralizing Experience: Cuba's Local Governments / Haroldo Dilla Alfonso and Gerardo Gonzalez Nunez

Society, Civil Society, and the State : An Uneasy Three-Way Affair / Damian J. Fernandez

Cuba Poll : The Findings and How Cubans Responded to Questions / Mimi Whitefield and Mary Beth Sheridan

Cuba's Catholic Dissident : The Saga of Oswaldo Pay / Tim Padgett

Cuban Economy

Editors' Introduction

Development as an Unfinished Affair : Cuba After the Great Adjustment of the 1990s / Pedro Monreal

The Cuban Economy: Amid Economic Stagnation and Reversal of Reforms / Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo

Cutting Losses : Cuba Downsizes Its Sugar Industry / Philip Peters

The Political Economy of Leisure / Marguerite Rose Jimenez

Going Against the Grain: Agricultural Crisis and Transformation / Minor Sinclair and Martha Thompson

Vale Todo / Ted Henken

Dollarization and its Discontents : Remittances and Cuba's Remaking in the Post Soviet Era / Susan Eckstein

Cuban Foreign Policy

Editors' Introduction

Neoliberalism, Global Inequality, and Irreparable Destruction of Our Natural Habita t: Message to the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) / Fidel Castro Ruz

Cuba and the Pax Americana / Jorge I. Domínguez

Cuba's Counter Hegemonic Strategy / Michael Erisman

Like Sisyphus' Stone : U.S. Cuban Relations in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 / Soraya M. Castro Marino

Advancing the Day When Cuba Will Be Free / Daniel W. Fisk

Fidel's Final Victory / Julia E. Sweig

Wanted : A Logical Cuba Policy / Wayne S. Smith

The Cuban Five and the U.S. War Against Terror / Leonard Weinglass

The European Union's Perception of Cuba: From Frustration to Irritation / Joaquín Roy

Sleeping with an Elephant / Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk

Cuban Americans and Their Transnational Ties / Susan Eckstein and Lorena Barberia

Social Transformation

In the Shadow of Plenty, Cuba Copes with a Crippled Health Care System / Robin C. Williams

Social Impact of the Economic Measures / Miren Uriarte

Cuban Youth: Aspirations, Social Perceptions, and Identity / María Isabel Domínguez

The Cuban Education System: Lessons and Dilemmas / Lavinia Gasperini

Early Childhood Education in Revolutionary Cuba during the Special Period / Margo Kirk

Heroines of the Special Period / María López Vigil

The Status of Cuban Women: From Economically Dependent to Independent / Raisa Pages

Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's Special Period / Alejandro de la Fuente

The Status of Gays in Cuba : Myth and Reality / Larry Oberg

Civil Society and Religion in Cuba: Past, Present, and Future / Margaret E. Crahan

There is No Homeland Without Virtue / Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino

Cuban Culture

Editors' Introduction

A Black Woman from Cuba, That's All

An interview with Nancy Morejon

Living and Creating in Cuba: Risks and Challenges / Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Visions of Dollars Dance Before Cuban Artists' Eyes / Maria Finn Domínguez

Ballet : Split with Cuba Still Brings Pain / Enrique Fernandez

Cuban Cinema / Michael Chanan

Two Songs / Carlos Varela

From the Heart of Cuba, A Love song.