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A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution

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Cuba has undergone dramatic changes because the collapse of European communism. The lack of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have reverberated through Cuban society and politics, recreating social inequalities unknown because the 1950s and confronting the political system with unprecedented new challenges. The resulting ferment is increasingly more evident in Cuban cultural expression, and the responses to adversity and scarcity have reshaped Cuban social relations.

This anthology brings together the most efficient contemporary scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in the post-Soviet era, which Cubans call the “Special Period.” Ideally suited for students and general readers looking for to be mindful up to date Cuba, the book features a substantive introduction setting the historical context, in addition to part introductions and a chronology.

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