Managing Socialism From Old Cadres to New Professionals in Revolutionary Cuba

Name: Managing Socialism From Old Cadres to New Professionals in Revolutionary Cuba
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ISBN: 9780275934149

ISBN-10: 0275934144

ISBN-13: 9780275934149

Edition: 1990

Authors: F. T. Fitzgerald

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Managing Socialism challenges the theoretical underpinnings of Cuban Studies--the elite/mass perspective. It offers a major reinterpretation of the revolutionary process which focuses on the rise and fall of different types of social actors at the intermediate level of Cuban society. Frank Fitzgerald identifies intermediate level types: the prerevolutionary middle class; the old cadres who in the 1960s attained administrative positions with political credentials; and the new professionals who primarily since 1970 enter these same occupations on the basis of education. Fitzgerald focuses on the transitions from one type to the next and uncovers conflict/cooperation patterns between the three…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 7/26/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Cuban Studies and the Analysis of Socialist Societies


Dimensions of the Cuban Skill Problem


Responses to the Skill Problem in Revolutionary Cuba, and the Crisis of 1970


The Post-1970


Rectification Process


Managing the Transition: From Old Cadres to New Professionals


Bureaucratic Versus Democratic Centralism in the Cuban Economy


Conclusion: Further Development of New Professionals in Cuba


Bibliography


Index