Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
Chapter One – Towards “Monolithic Unity” – Building Cuban State
Power from Above.
Chapter Two - Economic Development and Standard of Living Since the
1959 Revolution.
Chapter Three – Cuba’s Foreign Policy – Between Revolution and
Reasons of State.
Chapter Four - Cuban Workers After the 1959 Revolution – Ruling
Class or Exploited Class?
Chapter Five - Black Cubans – An Oppression that Dared Not Speak
Its Name.
Chapter Six - Gender Politics and the Cuban Revolution.
Chapter Seven - Dissidents and Critics – From right to left.
Conclusion
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
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Samuel Farber was born and raised in Marianao, Cuba, and came to the United States in February 1958. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and taught at a number of colleges and universities including UCLA and, most recently, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. His scholarship on Cuba is extensive and includes many articles and two previous books: Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 19331960 (Wesleyan University Press, 1976) and The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). He is also the author of Before Stalinism. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy (Polity/Verso, 1990) and Social Decay and Transformation. A View From The Left (Lexington Books, 2000). Farber was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, and has been involved in socialist politics for more than fifty years.
"THE Cuban story twists and turns as we speak, so thank goodness
for scholars such as Samuel Farber, an unapologetic Marxist whose
knowledge of Cuban affairs is unrivalled … In this excellent,
necessary book, Farber takes stock of 50 years of revolutionary
control by recognising achievements but lambasting
authoritarianism." —Latin American Review of Books
“For some left-socialists like Farber, no society seems to have
measured up since the Paris Commune of 1871. But patient readers
will be rewarded by his frequent insights, stimulating historical
comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba’s economic
and social performance.” —Foreign Affairs
""Though countless analyses evaluate just how thoroughly the
revolution has transformed Cuba over the past 50 years, few rival
Samuel Farber’s work Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical
Assessment" —Rebecca Whedon, Foreign Policy in Focus
"I believe this book is destined to become a classic." —Alejandro
Anreus, Z Mag
“A courageous and formidable balance-sheet of the Cuban Revolution,
including a sobering analysis of a draconian ‘reform’ program that
will only deepen the gulf between revolutionary slogans and the
actual life of the people.” —Mike Davis professor, University of
California, Riverside; author, Planet of Slums and In Praise of
Barbarians
“[O]pposed as much to neoliberal thought as to the perversions of
Stalinist and postmodern communist statism, Farber sets out to
critically explore the course followed by the society, government,
and power structures that emerged from the Cuban Revolution of
1959. . . . A necessary and suggestive reading for all of those
concerned with Cuba’s future and with the threat posed by the
imperial power over the entire Caribbean region.” —Adolfo Gilly,
emeritus professor of history, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM)
“This important, very well-written, and quite interesting book,
evaluates the fifty-two years of the Cuban Revolution under a
classical Marxist (pre-Stalinist) viewpoint. . . . [Farber]
evaluates, with surprising insights, Cuba’s performance on national
sovereignty, political democracy, economic growth, social welfare,
race, gender, and the stand of domestic and external dissidents and
critics. . . . Expect a strong reaction both from the right and the
left. Don’t miss it!” —Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies,
University of Pittsburgh
“Farber’s comprehensive and well-written assessment of Cuba’s
experience since 1959 is rooted in
history, informed by the comparative sociology of communist
regimes, and rich in insightful and
feisty analysis.” —Jorge I. Domínguez, professor of Mexican and
Latin American politics and economics, Harvard University
“While acknowledging achievements of the revolutionary process in
education and health, and defending Cuban sovereignty against
imperial intervention, Farber shatters many of the idyllic myths
propagated by left-wing apologists for the regime’s
authoritarianism. . . . A revolutionary democratic alternative,
Farber shows, will only be possible through socialist resistance
from below.”
—Jeffery R. Webber, author, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia:
Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo
Morales
“Samuel Farber is an excellent teacher … I found myself ending the
book humbly grateful to the author for so many things, including
his impeccable scholarship and his implacable commitment to the
truth.” —Havana Times
"Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: a Critical Assessment is
essential reading for anyone on the left concerned with the history
and future of the Cuban revolution in particular, and of socialism
in general. Farber’s meticulously researched and lucidly argued
investigation of over half a century of Cuban "socialism" presents
a challenge to supporters and opponents of the Cuban revolution on
both the left and right, particularly for those anti-Stalinists who
believe that "Cuba is different" from other bureaucratic
societies." —Charles Post, New Politics
“Samuel Farber's Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical
Assessment is bound to change the way we think about Latin
America's most important socialist experiment … [The Book] provides
a devastating critique of the Castro government in an historical
synthesis rich in theoretical and empirical detail.” —Neil A.
Burron, Socialist Studies
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