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Introduction -- The pre-revolutionary economy : progress or stagnation? -- Fidel Castro and the Cuban populist tradition -- U.S. policy and the Cuban Revolution -- The driving force of the Cuban Revolution : from above or from below? -- The role of the Soviet Union and the Cuban Communists -- Epilogue.

The "temporary" replacement of Fidel Castro by his younger brother Raul may be a short lived transition. In a recent visit to Cuba, the author found economic hardship in high food prices & that survival by breaking the law is now a way of life. He asserts that the Cuban's lack of labor discipline combines with the problematic "color-blind" policy of Cuban government to intermingle problems of race & class. The White Cuban hostility towards Black Cubans is indistinguishable from social marginality. The eventual role that race & marginality will play in a Cuban transition through organizational forms of popular resistance to the state sponsored capitalist transition is unpredictable. References. J. Harwell