Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s

摘要

The Special Period was declared in Cuba when the collapse of the Soviet Bloc plunged the country into economic crisis. Overnight the island lost 86 per cent of its trade, and many Cubans were forced to live a harsh daily existence in the midst of severe material shortages. As Cuba adapted to a newly globalised world, the revolutionary process and the value system it had promoted since 1959 faced new and unprecedented challenges.