Organizational CaseClaim Cited
Cuba’s revolutionary state, 1959–2021
Cuba's post-1959 order changed repeatedly as a plural anti-Batista coalition became a Communist Party state, Soviet-supported planning collapsed into the Special Period, and later leaders admitted private activity without admitting political competition. Universal health and education, U.S. hostility, economic scarcity, migration, participation, and repression were not separate stories: each transformation redistributed who could provide, speak, leave, and define the Revolution's public good.
How did institutions built to defend sovereignty and universal provision change when Cubans supplied evidence that the revolutionary settlement was failing them?