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The new old Cuba.(FROM THE GUEST EDITOR)
Is there a new Cuba? The traditional perspective suggests that Cuba is frozen in time, based on a view from the top: a political system that has remained quite unchanged if not atrophied. But, if one looks deep into the macro-structures of power, one will find that things have dramatically changed among political institutions and leaders outside the inner circle. Particularly at the grassroots level, these changes will have a decisive impact on the island's future. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, 15 years of the Special Period, and significant demographic changes, there is a new Cuba emerging. This new Cuba has become clearer with the recent news that Fidel ...
- CUBA-HAVANA. Sleeping child. Since the Soviet Union's collapse and the shortage...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Abbas January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Magnum Photos 01-01-1994 CUBA-HAVANA. Sleeping child. Since the Soviet Union's collapse and the shortage...antilles antilles greater antilles cuba. cuba-havana. sleeping child. since the soviet union's collapse and the shortage...
- Let them eat coconuts. (Soviet Union has not sent grain to Cuba)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 3, 1990 700+ words
...ounces. Most years the Soviet Union sends enough wheat after...harvest to build stocks in Cuba of 100,000 tonnes of...they usually sell to Cuba; it is by re-exporting...Germany and primarily the Soviet Union". Some senior Americans...Refusing shipments for Cuba can hurt its ...
- CUBA-HAVANA. Parents take their children to school.since the Soviet Union's...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Abbas January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Photos 01-01-1994 CUBA-HAVANA. Parents take...to school.since the Soviet Union's collapse and the...antilles greater antilles cuba. cuba-havana. parents take...to school.since the soviet union's collapse and the...
- Thinking like a Communist: state and legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and...
- Magazine article from: National Review Williamson, Chilton, Jr. July 17, 1987 700+ words
...like a Communist: State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba TONY SMITH's Thinking like a Communist:State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba (Norton, $16.95) is a brilliantly original...
- Thinking Like a Communist: State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and...
- Magazine article from: Monthly Review Anderson, W.H. Locke May 1, 1989 700+ words
W.C. Fields once claimed that Wagner's operas are not as bad as they sound, and the same can be said for Tony Smith's Thinking Like a Communist. On the surface it reads like an episode from the FBI's "Know Your Enemy" series, and deep down it really is, but at an intermediate level of reading,
- Cuban Economy Was Tied to Former Soviet Union
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered August 28, 1994 700+ words
...a long, hard look at Cuba it would be staring into...Russian eyes. When the Soviet Union was around, U.S...trade was very high, Cuba would trade between 5...and so forth, to the Soviet Union and receive in return...petroleum, which was Cuba's normal needs. It...
- Fresh tripe from Doug. (Village Voice writer Doug Ireland; Cuban and Vietnamese...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Cockburn, Alexander October 14, 1991 700+ words
...taken place in the Soviet Union in the last two...the government of Cuba." The statement...obligations assumed by the Soviet Union in conformity with...the positions of Cuba and Vietnam with...events both in the Soviet Union and in the international...
- Sovieticus. (American views of Soviet Union)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Cohen, Stephen F. June 13, 1987 700+ words
...meaningful' change in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev's abolition...for democracy in the Soviet Union, but to deny that lesser...put Soviet missiles in Cuba. Similarly, much American...reformer only if he ends the Soviet Union's role as a superpower...