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Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution
Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 249/23
- New Scholarship in Political Economy, Volume: 249/23
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In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salm Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin Americas underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution.
The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime , and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism.
The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime , and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism.
Joana Salm Vasconcelos, has a Ph.D. on Economic History at University of So Paulo and a Masters Degree on Economic Development at State University of Campinas. She is coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives (US) and associated researcher of Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria en Amrica Latina (CEHAL).
Acknowledgments
ForewordEnglish Edition Cubas Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators
ForewordBrazilian Edition
List of Tables, Charts, and Maps
Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976
Introduction Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
1âModernization of Cuban Plantation (19021958)
â1âLatifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure
1.1âBetween Latifundium and Minifundium
1.2âOrigins of Structural Heterogeneity
1.3âSocial Actors of Modern Plantation
â2âCropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street
2.1âMilitary Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation
2.2âDance of the Millions
2.3âReciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment
2.4âAscension of Cuban Saccharocracy
â3âLabor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds
3.1âStatistics Cover-Up
3.2âA Portrait of Rural Misery
3.3âStructural Unemployment and tiempo muerto
â4âThe World Seen from Above
4.1âBatista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan
4.2âA Portrait of Saccharocracy
â5âRevolution against Underdevelopment
5.1âThe Moncada Program
5.2âRevolutionary Democratic Nationalism
5.3âSierra Maestra Law No.3
2âFirst Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (19581963)
â1âTransformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1âThe Agrarian Reform Law of 1959
1.2âNationalization Laws
1.3âA Portrait of Structural Transformation
â2âCooperatives or State Farms?
2.1âThe Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation
2.2âAgricultural Cooperatives
2.3âGranjas del Pueblo (Peoples Farm)
2.4âConverting Cooperatives into Granjas
â3âPeasantry: Principle of Voluntarism andanap
3.1âanap Foundation and Its Principles
3.2âMistakes Made with the Peasantry
3.3âanap s Administrativism
3.4âPolitics of Voluntary Collectivism
â4âAgricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation
4.1âNeocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty
4.2âIncrease of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity
4.3âDiversification: Searching for Economic Development
4.4âStructural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient
4.5âIntensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963
3âSecond Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (19631967)
â1âTransformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1âThe Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963
1.2âCyclone Flora
1.3âThe Social Structure of the New Agriculture
1.4âA Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology
â2âThe Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox
2.1âThe 1964 Agreement
2.2âBack to Sugar
2.3âInserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency
2.4âThird World: Arena for National Sovereignty
â3âAgrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization
3.1âAgrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments)
3.2âAspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture
â4âSpecialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model
4.1âCrop Performance between 1964 and 1970
4.2âCombinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification
4.3âPeasantry and Special Plans
â5âTechnological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization
5.1âInvestment and Consumption
5.2âTiempo Muerto in Reverse: Unemployment in Disguise
5.3âPaths and Detours of Technological Choice
4âThe 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (19671970)
â1âAgrarian Structure and Development Strategy
1.1âImport Substituting Industrialization
1.2âTurnpike Strategy: the Return of Comparative Advantages?
1.3âWhy Ten Million?
â2âRevolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy
2.1âMoral Economy and Ideological Centralization
2.2âCollective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control
2.3âThe Shrinking of the Peasantry
â3âThe 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality
3.1âSimultaneous Battles
3.2âThe Harvest in Numbers
3.3âCauses of Failure
3.4âStructural Distortions
â4âVoluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion
4.1âDrop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman
4.2âCriticism of Volunteer Labor
4.3âThe Militarization of Labor
4.4âSelf-Criticism
5âConclusion Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
â1âGeopolitical Implications: the Source of Surplus
1.1âThe Transfer of Soviet Resource
1.2âMultilateral Payment Agreement
1.3âCold War and Geopolitical Advantages
1.4âJoining thecomecon
â2âPeripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
2.1âFrom Segregation to Egalitarianism
2.2âDevelopment of the Productive Forces
2.3âPeripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
Bibliography
Index
ForewordEnglish Edition Cubas Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators
ForewordBrazilian Edition
List of Tables, Charts, and Maps
Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976
Introduction Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
1âModernization of Cuban Plantation (19021958)
â1âLatifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure
1.1âBetween Latifundium and Minifundium
1.2âOrigins of Structural Heterogeneity
1.3âSocial Actors of Modern Plantation
â2âCropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street
2.1âMilitary Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation
2.2âDance of the Millions
2.3âReciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment
2.4âAscension of Cuban Saccharocracy
â3âLabor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds
3.1âStatistics Cover-Up
3.2âA Portrait of Rural Misery
3.3âStructural Unemployment and tiempo muerto
â4âThe World Seen from Above
4.1âBatista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan
4.2âA Portrait of Saccharocracy
â5âRevolution against Underdevelopment
5.1âThe Moncada Program
5.2âRevolutionary Democratic Nationalism
5.3âSierra Maestra Law No.3
2âFirst Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (19581963)
â1âTransformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1âThe Agrarian Reform Law of 1959
1.2âNationalization Laws
1.3âA Portrait of Structural Transformation
â2âCooperatives or State Farms?
2.1âThe Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation
2.2âAgricultural Cooperatives
2.3âGranjas del Pueblo (Peoples Farm)
2.4âConverting Cooperatives into Granjas
â3âPeasantry: Principle of Voluntarism and
3.1â
3.2âMistakes Made with the Peasantry
3.3â
3.4âPolitics of Voluntary Collectivism
â4âAgricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation
4.1âNeocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty
4.2âIncrease of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity
4.3âDiversification: Searching for Economic Development
4.4âStructural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient
4.5âIntensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963
3âSecond Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (19631967)
â1âTransformation of the Land Tenure System
1.1âThe Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963
1.2âCyclone Flora
1.3âThe Social Structure of the New Agriculture
1.4âA Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology
â2âThe Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox
2.1âThe 1964 Agreement
2.2âBack to Sugar
2.3âInserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency
2.4âThird World: Arena for National Sovereignty
â3âAgrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization
3.1âAgrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments)
3.2âAspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture
â4âSpecialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model
4.1âCrop Performance between 1964 and 1970
4.2âCombinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification
4.3âPeasantry and Special Plans
â5âTechnological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization
5.1âInvestment and Consumption
5.2âTiempo Muerto in Reverse: Unemployment in Disguise
5.3âPaths and Detours of Technological Choice
4âThe 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (19671970)
â1âAgrarian Structure and Development Strategy
1.1âImport Substituting Industrialization
1.2âTurnpike Strategy: the Return of Comparative Advantages?
1.3âWhy Ten Million?
â2âRevolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy
2.1âMoral Economy and Ideological Centralization
2.2âCollective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control
2.3âThe Shrinking of the Peasantry
â3âThe 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality
3.1âSimultaneous Battles
3.2âThe Harvest in Numbers
3.3âCauses of Failure
3.4âStructural Distortions
â4âVoluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion
4.1âDrop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman
4.2âCriticism of Volunteer Labor
4.3âThe Militarization of Labor
4.4âSelf-Criticism
5âConclusion Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
â1âGeopolitical Implications: the Source of Surplus
1.1âThe Transfer of Soviet Resource
1.2âMultilateral Payment Agreement
1.3âCold War and Geopolitical Advantages
1.4âJoining the
â2âPeripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
2.1âFrom Segregation to Egalitarianism
2.2âDevelopment of the Productive Forces
2.3âPeripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible
Bibliography
Index
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