Caviar with Rum [electronic resource] : Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience /
Loss, J.editor.
Prieto, J.editor.
Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Timeline of Soviet-Russian-Cuban Relations from 1959 to the Present; Part I Ostalgie : Cuban Style; 1 The Muñequitos Rusos Generation; 2 Nostalgia; 3 Roxy the Red; Part II Communicating Vessels; 4 The Rebel Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of "Cuban Sots Art "; 5 Toward a Cuban October; 6 Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite; 7 The Mammoth That Wouldn't Die; 8 Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)
Part III The Recalcitrant Ajiaco9 . . . so, Borscht Doesn't Mix into the Ajiaco ?: An Essay of Self-Ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba; 10 Dispatches from the War Zone; 11 Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black Mona; 12 Persistent Matrioshkas; Part IV The Imaginary Tractor; 13 The Inventor, the Machine, and the New Man; 14 What the Russians Left BehindYoss, translated by Daniel W. Koon; Part V Diplomatic and Economic Coquetterie; 15. Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in Cuba; 16. Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Latin America-Politics and government.
Literature   .
Culture-Study and teaching.
America-Literatures.
America-History.
Latin American Culture.
Latin American Politics.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
North American Literature.
History of the Americas.