Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Part I Idealism, 1952-1970
1 History Will Absolve Me: The Rebellion, 1952-1958 15
2 Fatherland or Death! Setting the Revolution's Foundations, 1959-1962 45
3 The Ten Million Will Happen: Expanding Socialism, 1963-1970 87
Part II Personalistic Institutionalization, 1971-1990
4 We Must Turn the Setback into Victory: Sovietization, Institutionalization, and the Expanding Cuban Diaspora, 1971-1985 127
5 Now We Are Going to Build Socialism: Crisis and Rectification, 1986-1990 164
Part III Survival, 1991-2013
6 Socialism or Death! The Long Special Period, 1991-2000 181
7 This Revolution Can Destroy Itself: Cuba at the Dawn of the New Millennium, 2001-2011 228
8 Rectify and Change … All That Should Be Rectified and Changed: Transitions, Elections, and Successions, 2011-2013 269
Conclusion: Rewinding the Threads in the Labyrinth 280
Epilogue: You Are My Friend 289
Notes 291
Bibliography 347
Index 371