Cuba's forgotten decade : how the 1970s shaped the revolution / edited by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, and Isabel Story.

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Cuba's Forgotten Decade provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s that challenges prevailing interpretations of the decade as simply a period of "Sovietization" characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Drawing from multidisciplina...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Lexington studies on Cuba.
Other Authors: Kirk, Emily J. (Editor)
Clayfield, Anna, 1983- (Editor)
Story, Isabel, 1987- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Lexington studies on Cuba.
Subjects:
Cuba > History > 1959-1990.
Cuba > Foreign relations > 1959-1990.
Cuba > Civilization > 1959-
Physical Description:viii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Raul's decade?, or, the first swing of the pendulum? / Antoni Kapcia
  • Havana and Moscow in the 1970s : 'Sovietization' in an era of détente / Mervyn Bain
  • David rising : Cuba and its northern Goliath in the 1970s / H. Michael Erisman
  • Canada-Cuba relations in the 1970s / John M. Kirk
  • Militarized by Moscow? : re-examining Soviet influence on Cuba in the 1970s / Anna Clayfield
  • No secret cure : why the 1970s hold the mystery to Cuba's health paradox / Robert Huish
  • Sexual education in the 1970s : a health-based approach / Emily J. Kirk
  • Cuban women and the state : women's lives in the 1970s and the new reproductive bargain / Hope Bastian Martínez
  • The 'three Ps' (perfecting, professionalization, and pragmatism) and their limitations for understanding Cuban education in the 1970s / Rosi Smith
  • Is class race, and race class? : blacks, the Cuban Revolution, and the 1970s / Isaac Saney
  • Black skin, red masks? : decolonization and literature in 1970s Cuba / Par Kumaraswami
  • Utopian cultural construction: Cuban cultural organization in the 1970s / Isabel Story
  • Cinema and culture in the 1970s : the art of autonomy / Guy Baron
  • ¿Seremos (otra vez) como el Ché? : Angola as an 'alternative narrative' to Cuba in the 1970s / Raquel Ribeiro
  • Within the revolution, everyone : Cuba, youth, and interrogating the 1970s paradigm / Anne Luke.