1960s: guerrilla dictatorship -- The Stalinization of Fidel Castro -- Castrologists and apologists: true belief in the service of false sentiment -- Cuban communism and Marxist revisionism -- The missile crisis: a decade in United States-Cuban relations -- 1970s: consolidation of communism -- United States policy toward Cuba in a Latin context -- Capitalism, communism, and multinationalism -- The militarization of guerrilla communism -- Military origins of the Cuban revolution -- Ideological euphoria and post-revolutionary Cuba -- Authenticity and autonomy in Cuban communism -- Institutionalized militarism of Cuba -- The Cuba lobby: supplying rope to a mortgaged revolution -- Institutionalization as integration: the Cuban revolution at age twenty -- 1980s: militarization of the regime -- C. Wright Mills and Listen, Yankee! -- The role of Cuba in the pacification of Central America -- Fidel's "soft" Stalinism -- 1990s: regionalization and retreat -- Small nation, global pretensions: Fidel Castro redux -- Revolution, longevity, and legitimacy in communist states -- The dictator who would be king -- New beginnings and familiar endings -- Totalitarian options in a post-communist world -- American foreign policy toward Castro: paradox, procrastination, and paralysis -- The conscience of Castrologists -- Social science as an instrument of democratic struggle -- The Cuban revolution: the myth of theory and the theory of myths -- Consequences of the American embargo -- The Jewish experience in Cuba -- Castro and the end of ideology -- Military autonomy and dependency in Castro's Cuba -- Cuban models and democratic choices -- Endless celebrations for an old dictator -- Reality avoidance and political pilgrimage -- Three points of light: long term U.S. policy responses to Cuba -- Cuba lobby upgrade: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose -- The Cuban embargo and the American interest -- 2000s: dissolution of political power -- The two Cubas of Elián González -- Cuba after Castro: the historical limits to dictatorship -- Humanitarian capitulation -- One hundred years of ambiguity: U.S.-Cuba relations in the 20th century -- The conflict between economy and ideology in Cuban communism -- Transition scenarios for a post-Castro Cuba: speaking loudly but carrying a small stick -- Castro's corn: petroleum and globalization -- Rocky shoals of reform: Castro and the Caudillo -- Cuba, Castro, and anti-semitism -- Semper Fidel -- Mi vida: the Manichean face of dictatorship.
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