Acknowledgments
Foreword—English Edition Cuba’s Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators
Foreword—Brazilian Edition
List of Tables, Charts, and Maps
Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976
Introduction Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
1 Modernization of Cuban Plantation (1902–1958)
1 Latifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure
1.1 Between Latifundium and Minifundium
1.2 Origins of Structural Heterogeneity
1.3 Social Actors of Modern Plantation
2 Cropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street
2.1 Military Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation
2.2 Dance of the Millions
2.3 Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment
2.4 Ascension of Cuban Saccharocracy
3 Labor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds
3.1 Statistics Cover-Up
3.2 A Portrait of Rural Misery
3.3 Structural Unemployment and tiempo muerto
4 The World Seen from Above
4.1 Batista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan
4.2 A Portrait of Saccharocracy
5 Revolution against Underdevelopment
5.1 The Moncada Program
5.2 Revolutionary Democratic Nationalism
5.3 Sierra Maestra Law No.3
2 First Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (1958–1963)
1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959
1.2 Nationalization Laws
1.3 A Portrait of Structural Transformation
2 Cooperatives or State Farms?
2.1 The Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation
2.2 Agricultural Cooperatives
2.3 Granjas del Pueblo (People’s Farm)
2.4 Converting Cooperatives into Granjas
3 Peasantry: Principle of Voluntarism and anap
3.1 anap Foundation and Its Principles
3.2 Mistakes Made with the Peasantry
3.3 anap ’s “Administrativism”
3.4 Politics of Voluntary Collectivism
4 Agricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation
4.1 Neocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty
4.2 Increase of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity
4.3 Diversification: Searching for Economic Development
4.4 Structural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient
4.5 Intensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963
3 Second Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (1963–1967)
1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963
1.2 Cyclone Flora
1.3 The Social Structure of the New Agriculture
1.4 A Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology
2 The Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox
2.1 The 1964 Agreement
2.2 Back to Sugar
2.3 Inserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency
2.4 Third World: Arena for National Sovereignty
3 Agrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization
3.1 Agrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments)
3.2 Aspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture
4 Specialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model
4.1 Crop Performance between 1964 and 1970
4.2 Combinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification
4.3 Peasantry and Special Plans
5 Technological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization
5.1 Investment and Consumption
5.2 Tiempo Muerto in Reverse: Unemployment in Disguise
5.3 Paths and Detours of Technological Choice
4 The 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (1967–1970)
1 Agrarian Structure and Development Strategy
1.1 Import Substituting Industrialization
1.2 Turnpike Strategy: the Return of “Comparative Advantages”?
1.3 Why Ten Million?
2 Revolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy
2.1 Moral Economy and Ideological Centralization
2.2 Collective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control
2.3 The Shrinking of the Peasantry
3 The 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality
3.1 Simultaneous Battles
3.2 The Harvest in Numbers
3.3 Causes of Failure
3.4 Structural Distortions
4 Voluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion
4.1 Drop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman
4.2 Criticism of Volunteer Labor
4.3 The Militarization of Labor
4.4 Self-Criticism
5 Conclusion Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
1 Geopolitical Implications: the Source of Surplus
1.1 The Transfer of Soviet Resource
1.2 Multilateral Payment Agreement
1.3 Cold War and Geopolitical Advantages
1.4 Joining the comecon
2 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
2.1 From Segregation to Egalitarianism
2.2 Development of the Productive Forces
2.3 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
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