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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.

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• Preface to the Second Edition(p. xiii)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xvi)
• Abbreviations(p. xxv)
• Chapter 1 The Limits and Possibilities of Socialism(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 The "push for Communism" and the "retreat to Socialism"(p. 31)
• Chapter 3 The Late 1980s Campaign to "rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies"(p. 60)
• Chapter 4 From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary(p. 88)
• Chapter 5 The Irony of Success(p. 128)
• Chapter 6 A Maximum of Ruralism, a Minimum of Urbanism(p. 149)
• Chapter 7 Internationalism(p. 171)
• Chapter 8 The Relevance of the Revolution(p. 204)
• Chapter 9 Epilogue(p. 219)
• Appendix(p. 244)
• Notes(p. 261)
• Index(p. 311)

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CHOICE Review

Sociologist Eckstein (Boston Univ.) has written a seminal, highly important, well-reasoned, and balanced analysis of Cuba under Castro. The author works from an original theoretical vantage point that examines Cuba in a fresh and complex way, marshaling impressive data on Cuban social and economic organization as well as on the inner workings of the revolutionary regime and its internal problems. The author explains how Cuba is different from all other models and how, ideologically, Cuba has been much less driven by Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy than is usually assumed. The book is a welcome and thorough review of the history of Castro's revolutionary government as well as a detailed description of the personalities and policies that have shaped it. The concluding chapter speculates provocatively about the future, warning that in the absence of meaningful opposition and intermediate groups, Cuba may face turmoil brought about by growing discontent and the lack of an organizational base on which to build democracy. Handsomely published with detailed notes, many of them discursive. Highly recommended for readers at all levels, nonacademic as well as academic. R. M. Levine; University of Miami

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Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is author of The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico (Princeton).