Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution

Acknowledgments Foreword—English Edition Cuba’s Present and a Specter Haunting the Spectators Foreword—Brazilian Edition List of Tables, Charts, and Maps Cuban Provinces from 1940 to 1976 Introduction Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism 1 Modernization of Cuban Plantation (1902–1958)  1 Latifundium-Minifundium Land Tenure Structure 1.1 Between Latifundium and Minifundium 1.2 Origins of Structural Heterogeneity 1.3 Social Actors of Modern Plantation  2 Cropping Regimes: Sugarcane Fields in Wall Street 2.1 Military Order No.62 and Primitive Accumulation 2.2 Dance of the Millions 2.3 Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and the Jones-Costigan Amendment 2.4 Ascension of Cuban Saccharocracy  3 Labor Regime: the Curse of the Crowds 3.1 Statistics Cover-Up 3.2 A Portrait of Rural Misery 3.3 Structural Unemployment and tiempo muerto  4 The World Seen from Above 4.1 Batista and the Rockefeller-Sullivan 4.2 A Portrait of Saccharocracy  5 Revolution against Underdevelopment 5.1 The Moncada Program 5.2 Revolutionary Democratic Nationalism 5.3 Sierra Maestra Law No.3 2 First Agrarian Reform, Impulses and Impasses (1958–1963)  1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System 1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959 1.2 Nationalization Laws 1.3 A Portrait of Structural Transformation  2 Cooperatives or State Farms? 2.1 The Proletarian Peasant and the Scale Preservation 2.2 Agricultural Cooperatives 2.3 Granjas del Pueblo (People’s Farm) 2.4 Converting Cooperatives into Granjas  3 Peasantry: Principle of Voluntarism and anap 3.1  anap Foundation and Its Principles 3.2 Mistakes Made with the Peasantry 3.3  anap ’s “Administrativism” 3.4 Politics of Voluntary Collectivism  4 Agricultural Diversification: Disruption of the Double Articulation 4.1 Neocolonial Insertion Crisis: the Search for National Sovereignty 4.2 Increase of Internal Demand: Searching for Social Equity 4.3 Diversification: Searching for Economic Development 4.4 Structural Problems of Diversification: Extensive, Disorganized, and Inefficient 4.5 Intensification of Class Struggle and General Economic Trends in 1963 3 Second Agrarian Reform and the Sugar Paradox (1963–1967)  1 Transformation of the Land Tenure System 1.1 The Agrarian Reform Law of October 1963 1.2 Cyclone Flora 1.3 The Social Structure of the New Agriculture 1.4 A Combined Strategy: Sugar, Diversification and Technology  2 The Soviet Union and the Sugar Paradox 2.1 The 1964 Agreement 2.2 Back to Sugar 2.3 Inserted Revolution and the Paradox of the New Dependency 2.4 Third World: Arena for National Sovereignty  3 Agrarian Management: between Relative Autonomy and Centralization 3.1 Agrupamientos, Departamentos, Lotes (Grouping, Departments, Allotments) 3.2 Aspects of the Great Debate in Agriculture  4 Specialized Diversification and Technology-Intensive Model 4.1 Crop Performance between 1964 and 1970 4.2 Combinados and Special Plans: Modes of Diversification 4.3 Peasantry and Special Plans  5 Technological Dependency and Sugarcane Mechanization 5.1 Investment and Consumption 5.2 Tiempo Muerto in Reverse: Unemployment in Disguise 5.3 Paths and Detours of Technological Choice 4 The 1970 Harvest and Development Strategy (1967–1970)  1 Agrarian Structure and Development Strategy 1.1 Import Substituting Industrialization 1.2 Turnpike Strategy: the Return of “Comparative Advantages”? 1.3 Why Ten Million?  2 Revolutionary Offensive and Moral Economy 2.1 Moral Economy and Ideological Centralization 2.2 Collective Wage Agreement and Lack of Accounting Control 2.3 The Shrinking of the Peasantry  3 The 1970 Harvest: Plan and Reality 3.1 Simultaneous Battles 3.2 The Harvest in Numbers 3.3 Causes of Failure 3.4 Structural Distortions  4 Voluntary Work: between Consciousness and Coercion 4.1 Drop in Productivity and Elimination of the Foreman 4.2 Criticism of Volunteer Labor 4.3 The Militarization of Labor 4.4 Self-Criticism 5 Conclusion Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism  1 Geopolitical Implications: the Source of Surplus 1.1 The Transfer of Soviet Resource 1.2 Multilateral Payment Agreement 1.3 Cold War and Geopolitical Advantages 1.4 Joining the comecon  2 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible 2.1 From Segregation to Egalitarianism 2.2 Development of the Productive Forces 2.3 Peripheral Socialism and Rationality of the Possible Bibliography Index