Caviar with Rum Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience [Hardcover]

Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.PART I: OSTALGIE: CUBAN STYLE The Mu?equitos Rusos GenerationAurora J?come, Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen NostalgiaReina Mar?a Rodr?guez, Translated by Kristin Dykstra Roxy the RedPedro Gonz?lez Reinoso, Translated by Dick Cluster PART II: COMMUNICATING VESSELS The Rebellious Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of Cuban Sots Art Juan Carlos Betancourt, Translated by Antonio Garza Toward a Cuban OctoberErnesto Men?ndez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward SatelliteJorge Ferrer, Translated by Anna Kushner The Mammoth That Wouldn't DieCarlos Espinosa Dom?nguez, Translated by Elizabeth Bell Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)Jos? Manuel Prieto, Translated by Jorge Castillo PART III: RECALCITRANT AJIACO &So, Borscht and the Ajiaco Don't Mix?: An Essay of Self-ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in CubaDmitri Prieto Samsonov and Polina Mart?nez Shvietsova, Translated by Kristina Cordero Dispatches from the War ZoneTonel Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black 'Mona'Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva, Translated by Jacqueline Loss Persistent MatriushkasJacqueline Loss PART IV: THE IMAGINARY TRACTOR The Inventor, the Machine, and the New ManAriana Hern?ndez-Reguant What the Russians Left BehindYoss, Translated by Daniel W. Koon PART V: DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC COQUETTERIE Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in CubaYuri Pavlov Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet WorldMervyn J. Bain

A provocative, landmark collection, Caviar with Rum initiates a necessary and timely reckoning with the cultural, ideological, pedagogical, and political reverberatil³x