Conflict and Change in Cuba. (book reviews)

Humbled by the failure of fellow scholars to predict the cataclysmic collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Cubanologists have been straining ever since to foresee Fidel Castro's future. Despite prophecies of imminent doom by journalists, pundits, and exiles in Miami, the Castro regime remains in power, albeit facing the worst crisis in its 35-year history.

These two volumes, both edited by prominent scholars, explore the depths of Cuba's economic and political crisis. Mesa-Lago's tends to focus more on economics than politics -- perhaps not ...

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