Cuba's Forgotten Decade

Emily J. Kirk is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. Anna Clayfield is lecturer in Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Chester. Isabel Story is lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Nottingham.

• List of Acronyms Introduction: Cuba’s Forgotten DecadeSection One: Politics and International RelationsChapter 1: Raúl’s Decade? Or the First Swing of the Pendulum?Antoni KapciaChapter 2: Havana and Moscow in the 1970s: “Sovietization” in an Era of DétenteMervyn BainChapter 3: David Rising: Cuba and its Northern Goliath in the 1970sH. Michael ErismanChapter 4: Canada-Cuba Relations in the 1970sJohn M. KirkChapter 5: Militarized by Moscow? Re-examining Soviet Influence on Cuba in the 1970sAnna ClayfieldSection Two: Healthcare and EducationChapter 6: No Secret Cure: Why the 1970s Hold the Mystery to Cuba’s Health ParadoxRobert HuishChapter 7: Sexual Education in the 1970s: A Health-Based ApproachEmily J. KirkChapter 8: Cuban Women and the State: Women’s Lives in the 1970s and the New Reproductive BargainHope Bastian Martínez Chapter 9: The “Three Ps” (Perfecting, Professionalization, and Pragmatism) and their Limitations for Understanding Cuban Education in the 1970sRosi SmithChapter 10: Is Class Race, and Race Class? Blacks, the Cuban Revolution, and the 1970sIsaac SaneySection Three: CultureChapter 11: Black Skin, Red Masks? Decolonization and Literature in 1970s CubaPar KumaraswamiChapter 12: Utopian Cultural Construction: Cuban Cultural Organization in the 1970sIsabel StoryChapter 13: Cinema and Culture in the 1970s: The Art of AutonomyGuy BaronChapter 14: “Seremos (otra vez) como el Che”? Angola as an “alternative narrative” to Cuba in the 1970sRaquel RibeiroChapter 15: Within the Revolution, Everyone: Cuba, Youth, and Interrogating the 1970s ParadigmAnne LukeConclusionIndexAbout the Contributors

This collection offers a sound challenge to received historical wisdom about Cuba. Most fundamentally, it is a great example of what happens to historical truths when cultural, social, and political life are examined with one lens. This is as true for Cuba in the 1970s as it is anywhere, anytime.