Cuba: order and revolution

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This volume offers an assessment of the social and political changes in Cuba that occured during the 20th century. The author acknowledges the accomplishments of the revolution in eliminating illiteracy, fostering greater social equality, and providing public education and free medical care. But he is severely critical of the regime's political repression against the people of Cuba.

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Title Statements

Full title :Cuba : order and revolution / Jorge I. Dominguez.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1978.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:1978.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 683 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0674179250, 9780674179257
oclc:ocm03869243
LC Classification:JL1008
Dewey Decimal:320.9/7291/06

Prerevolutionary Cuba -- Governing through pluralization, 1902-1933 -- Governing through regulation and distribution, 1933-1958 -- The breakdown of the political system -- Revolutionary Cuba: governing through centralization -- International influences, society, and the economy -- Establishing a new government -- Mass political participation -- The Communist party -- The civic soldier -- Political processes and change -- Setting public policy -- Agrarian conflict and peasant politics -- Political culture.

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Cuba Cuba -- Condiciones economicas Cuba -- Condiciones sociales Cuba -- Conditions économiques Cuba -- Conditions sociales Cuba -- Economic conditions Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1895- Cuba -- Politique et gouvernement -- 18… Cuba -- Social conditions Economic history Geschichte 1895 Kuba Politics and government Politisches System Since 1895 Social conditions