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The Institutionalization of the Cuban State: A Political Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Max Azicri
Max Azicri*
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Department of Political Science, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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Departing from other approaches in the literature of Cuban studies (Azicri, 1979) this article does not examine the current phase of institutionalizing the revolution as an unforeseeable event due to fortuitous circumstances, such as the regime's blunder of the 1970 sugar harvest. Indeed, ten years later, it seems simply inaccurate to explain so many epoch-making events that have dominated revolutionary politics as if they occurred just because the regime was unable to produce the remaining 1.465 million tons of its goal of 10 million tons of sugar. However, this is not to construe the 1970 sugar harvest and its surrounding events to be void of any significance in what followed later; more properly, it is meant as a rejection of the notion that the institutionalization of the revolution is the direct outcome of that single historical happening.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , August 1980 , pp. 315 - 344
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Copyright © University of Miami 1980

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