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Title:

Caviar with rum : Cuba-USSR and the post-Soviet experience / edited by Jacqueline Loss and Jos©♭ Manuel Prieto.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xv, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Cuba--Relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Relations--Cuba.
Cuba--Intellectual life--20th century.
Cuba--Intellectual life--21st century.
Cuba--Civilization--1959-
Collective memory--Cuba.

Other Authors:

Loss, Jacqueline.
Prieto Gonz©Łlez, Jos©♭ Manuel, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-258) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Timeline of Soviet-Russian-Cuban relations from 1959 to the present -- Part I. Ostalgie : Cuban style -- The mu©łequitos rusos generation / Aurora J©Łcome -- Nostalgia / Reina Mar©Ưa Rodr©Ưguez -- Roxy the red / Pedro Gonz©Łlez Reinoso -- Part II. Communicating vessels -- The rebel children of the Cuban Revolution : notes on the history of "Cuban sots art" / Juan Carlos Betancourt -- Toward a Cuban October / Ernesto Men©♭ndez-Conde -- Around the sun : the adventures of a wayward satellite / Jorge Ferrer -- The mammoth that wouldn't die / Carlos Espinosa Dom©Ưnguez -- Heberto Padilla, the first dissident (of the Cuban Revolution) / Jos©♭ Manuel Prieto -- Part III. The recalcitrant ajiaco -- So, borscht doesn't mix into the ajiaco? An essay of self-ethnography on the young post-Soviet diaspora in Cuba / Dmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Mart©Ưnez Shvietsova -- Dispatches from the war zone / Tonel -- Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The hare and the turtle : the black "Mona" / Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva -- Persistent matrioshkas / Jacqueline Loss -- Part IV. The imaginary tractor -- The inventor, the machine, and the new man / Ariana Hern©Łndez-Reguant -- What the Russians left behind / Yoss -- Part V. Diplomatic and economic coquetterie -- Socialism as the main Soviet legacy in Cuba / Yuri Pavlov -- Havana and Moscow in the post-Soviet world / Mervyn J. Bain.

Series:

New directions in Latino American cultures
New concepts in Latino American cultures

ISBN:

1137027975 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781137027979 (hardback : alk. paper)
1137031344 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781137031341 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)773022291

LCCN:

2012011140

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)