Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ABBREVIATIONS; The Limits and Possibilities of Socialism; The ̃Push for Communism̃ and the ̃Retreat to Socialism̃: 1959 to 1985; The Late 1980s Campaign to ̃Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies̃ Socialist Renegade or Retrograde in the Era of Perestroika?; From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary: The 1990s ̃Special Period in Peacetimẽ; The Irony of Success: Social Accomplishments and Their Unintended Consequences
Summary
This updated, second edition contains a new epilogue by the author that covers the last decade, including such newsworthy events as the Elian Gonzalez controversy and the growing immigrant community of Cuban-Americans in Florida
