Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.
Introduction / Miguel Angel Centeno and Mauricio Font. -- Cuba's search for alternatives / Miguel Angel Centeno. -- The invisible crisis: the exhaustion of politics in 1900s Cuba / Marifeli Pérez-Stable. -- Socialism and sociolismo: social actors and economic change in 1990s Cuba / Francisco Léon. -- Are blacks "getting out of control"? racial attitudes, revolution, and political transition in Cuba / Alejandro de la Fuente and Laurence Glasco. -- Cuba-U.S. relations and the process of transition: possible consequences of covert agendas / Gillian Gunn Clissold. -- Transition and the ideology of exile / Max J. Castro. -- Crisis and reform in Cuba / Mauricio Font. -- The limits of socialism in a capitalist world economy: Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc / Susan Eckstein. -- The cuban economy in the mid-1990s: structural/monetary pathology and public policy / Arichibald R.M. Ritter. -- Cuba's second economy and the market transition / Jorge F. Pérez-López. -- Economic changes in cuba: problems and challenges / Julio Carranza Valdés. -- The economics of the present moment / Pedro Monreal. -- Transition to what? / Manuel Moreno Fraginals. -- Reflections: May 1, 1996 / Miguel Angel Centeno and Mauricio Font