Bittersweet solidarity: Cuba, Sugar, and the Soviet bloc
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| author | Radoslav Yordanov |
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| contents | Bittersweet solidarity: Cuba, Sugar, and the Soviet bloc Radoslav Yordanov Historia Cuba CMEA sugar Soviet Union United States This paper traces the complex sugar trade between Cuba and the East European Socialist states (the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary) from the Cuban revolution in 1959 until the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in 1991. To Cuba, selling its sugar to the Socialist states at above-world market prices was an expression of East European states’ socialist solidarity. To the bloc states, it was a form of economic aid to Cuba. This formulation not only went against the preferred form of exchange within the CMEA, namely cooperation based on mutual interest but also incensed the Cubans who felt the revolution was entitled to the support of all Socialist states from Berlin to Moscow. Amid this complicated relationship, the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev posed a serious challenge to Cuba, which was unprepared to face the free market. The result was a loss of foreign markets and a severe domestic crisis known as the Special Period. This work seeks to provide a new reading of the ebb and flow between Cuba and its Socialist trading partners, relying on the views expressed in the candid reports of the East European diplomats and experts, who were involved in the day-to-day managing of their respective states’ economic relations with the Caribbean nation. It is based on original research in foreign ministry, party, and security services archives of the East European states. It also utilizes primary material originating from the Cuban foreign ministry. 2021 artículo científico 0034-8325 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=701878590007 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7018 Revista de historia de América application/pdf Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia Revista de historia de América (México) Num.161 |
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| spellingShingle | Bittersweet solidarity: Cuba, Sugar, and the Soviet bloc Radoslav Yordanov Historia Cuba CMEA sugar Soviet Union United States Bittersweet solidarity: Cuba, Sugar, and the Soviet bloc Radoslav Yordanov Historia Cuba CMEA sugar Soviet Union United States This paper traces the complex sugar trade between Cuba and the East European Socialist states (the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary) from the Cuban revolution in 1959 until the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in 1991. To Cuba, selling its sugar to the Socialist states at above-world market prices was an expression of East European states’ socialist solidarity. To the bloc states, it was a form of economic aid to Cuba. This formulation not only went against the preferred form of exchange within the CMEA, namely cooperation based on mutual interest but also incensed the Cubans who felt the revolution was entitled to the support of all Socialist states from Berlin to Moscow. Amid this complicated relationship, the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev posed a serious challenge to Cuba, which was unprepared to face the free market. The result was a loss of foreign markets and a severe domestic crisis known as the Special Period. This work seeks to provide a new reading of the ebb and flow between Cuba and its Socialist trading partners, relying on the views expressed in the candid reports of the East European diplomats and experts, who were involved in the day-to-day managing of their respective states’ economic relations with the Caribbean nation. It is based on original research in foreign ministry, party, and security services archives of the East European states. It also utilizes primary material originating from the Cuban foreign ministry. 2021 artículo científico 0034-8325 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=701878590007 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7018 Revista de historia de América application/pdf Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia Revista de historia de América (México) Num.161 |
| title | Bittersweet solidarity: Cuba, Sugar, and the Soviet bloc |
| topic | Historia Cuba CMEA sugar Soviet Union United States |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=701878590007 |