Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro

By Eckstein, Susan Eva Eckstein, Susan Eva and Susan Eckstein

Book Overview

Susan Eckstein describes how and explains why Cuban Communism has been misperceived and misunderstood abroad. Concealed behind Marxist-Leninist rhetoric and Castro's autocratic single-party rule has been a government promoting a cradle-to-grave welfare state, tolerating market reforms, foreign investment, Western trade, and hard currency "internationalism." Not only has Castro's Cuba been less ideologically driven by Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy than has heretofore been believed, it also has been less omnipotent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034451
• ISBN13: 9780691034454
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"