Caviar with rum
Subtitle: Cuba-USSR and the post-Soviet experience
By: edited by Jacqueline Loss and José Manuel Prieto
Contributors: Prieto González, José Manuel, 1962-
Series: New concepts in Latino American cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781137031341; 9781137027979
Subjects: Collective memory; Intellectual life; Civilization; Relations
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.

No country in Latin America has escaped the symbolic influence of the United States to the extent that Revolutionary Cuba has. This resistance meant that for approximately three decades the Soviet Union had an invitation to intervene in practically all Cuban spheres. With 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 these days and what this means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and annotated timeline / Jacqueline Loss and José Manuel Prieto; title: The muñequitos rusos generation / Aurora Jácome; title: Nostalgia / Reina María Rodríguez; title: Roxy the red / Pedro González Reinoso; title: The rebellious children of the Cuban Revolution : notes on the history of Cuban sots art / Juan Carlos Betancourt; title: Toward a Cuban October / Ernesto Menéndez; title: Around the sun : the adventures of a wayward satellite / Jorge Ferrer; title: The mammoth that wouldn't die / Carlos Espinosa Domínguez; title: Heberto Padilla, the first dissident (of the Cuban Cevolution) / José Manuel Prieto; title: "So, borscht and the ajiaco don't mix" : an essay of self-ethnography on the young post-soviet diaspora in Cuba / Dmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Martínez Shvietsova; title: Dispatches from the war zone / Tonel; title: Fnimaniev! fnimaniev! the hare and the turtle : the black "Mona" / Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva; title: Persistent matriushkas / Jacqueline Loss; title: The inventor, the machine, and the new man / Ariana Hernández-Reguant; title: What the Russians left behind / Yoss; title: Socialism as the main Soviet legacy in Cuba / Yuri Pavlov; title: Havana and Moscow in the post-Soviet world / Mervyn J. Bain.