The Cuban Revolution : Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)

List of Abbreviations Map of Cuba PART I: INTRODUCTION PART II: ENCOUNTERS WITH 'THE MONSTER' AND OTHERS Revolutionary Struggle in Cuba: the 1950s, Bastista, Castro and the Americans The Cuban Revolution engages with the world Cuba and the United States in the 1960s PART III: THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY Imperial encounters Economic encounters Cultural encounters The contested nature of citizenship Destierro - the experience of exile PART IV: GENERATIONS OF PROTEST Jose Marti Students, communists and pistoleros Che and Fidel Cuba and the Latin American Revolution Revolutionary triumph - the building of Cuba Libre PART V: THE REVOLUTION MATURES Social and economic policy Foreign policy Havana and Washington Cuba and Reaganism Cuba and the US enter the 1990s Rectification - invoking the spirit of the 1960s PART VI: THE CUBAN STATE AND THE CUBAN PEOPLE The nature of political rule Cuban civil society Revolutionary culture PART VII: CONCLUSION Coming out of the Special Period US Cuba Policy in the 1990s Coming to terms with difference Prospects for the Revolution Notes Bibliography Index