Cuban communism / Irving Louis Horowitz and Jaime Suchlicki, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cuba: The United States and Batista, 1952-1958 / Hugh Thomas -- The Sierra and the plains / Robertao Luque Escalona -- Decentralization, local government, and participation in Cuba / Nelson Amaro -- Guerrillas at war / Marta San Mart́in and Ramón L. Bonachea -- The Cuban Missile Crisis revisited / James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and David A. Welch -- Immutable proclamations and unintended consequences / Luis E. Aguilar -- Fidelismo: The unfulfilled ideology / Tad Szulc -- Assessing economic and social performance in the Cuban transition of the 1990s / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Labor conditions in revolutionary Cuba / Efren Córdova and Eduardo García Moure -- The political economy of Caudillismo / Mary Katherine Crabb -- Market-oriented Marxism: Post-Cold War transition in Cuba and Vietnam / Julie M. Bunck -- Cuba's socialist economy: The mid-1990s / Jorge F. Pérez-López -- Challenges and policy imperatives to the economy / Archibald R.M. Ritter -- The U.S. embargo and the failure of the Cuban economy / Antonio Jorge -- Higher education and the institutionalized regime / Eusebio Mâjal-León -- The conventionalization of collective behavior / Benigno E. Aguirre -- Political control and Cuban youth / Enrique A. Baloyra -- Women, family and the Cuban revolution / Marisela Fleites-Lear -- Juvenile delinquency in post-revolutionary Cuba / Luis P. Salas -- Journalism and propaganda in the new Cuba / John D. Harbron -- Health care in Cuba / Tim Golden -- Cuba's refugees: Manifold migrations / Silvia Pedraza -- Political-military relations from 1959 to the present / Phyllis Greene Walker -- Human rights and military rule in Cuba / Rhoda Rabkin -- Military origin and evolution of the Cuban revolution / Irving Louis Horowitz -- The Cuban armed forces: Changing roles, continued loyalties / Juan M. del Aguila -- Cuban military influences on politcal and economic decision-making / Jaime Suchlicki -- Why the Cuban regime has not fallen / Jorge I. Domínguez -- Cuba: Without subsidies / Jaime Suchlicki -- Cuba: Economic sanctions and American diplomacy / Susan Kaufman Purcell -- Cuba and the United States: Back to the beginning / Mark Falcoff -- Actors, models, and endgames / Edward Gonzalez -- The Cuban revoluton and its acolytes / Carlos Alberto Montaner -- Crises of the Castro regime / Howard J. Wiarda -- After Fidel, what?: Forecasting institutional changes in Cuba / Josep M. Colomer -- Political pilgrimage and the end of ideology / Irving Louis Horowitz -- The United States and Cuba: Future security issues / Brian Latell -- Role of the United States and international lending institutions in Cuba's transition / Sergio Díaz-Briquets -- Sustainable small enterprise development in a Cuban transtion economy / Robert D. Cruz and J. Antonio Villamil -- Selected technical assisance needs during the Cuban transition / Ernesto F. Betancourt -- Festina Lente - The United States and Cuba after Castro / Michael Radu -- The nontransition in cuba: Problems and prospects for change / Juan J. López -- Humanitarian assistance during a democratic transition in Cuba / Andrew S. Natsios.