Open AccessThe special period in Cuban history (1991-2000)
Author(s) -
Anton Boreyko,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
latinoamerikanskij istoričeskij alʹmanah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-0282
pISSN - 2305-8773
DOI - 10.32608/2305-8773-2021-30-1-185-200
Subject(s) - period (music) , pace , mainstream , political science , constitution , foreign policy , economic history , peacetime , state (computer science) , political economy , history , development economics , law , sociology , politics , economics , philosophy , geography , geodesy , algorithm , computer science , aesthetics
The modern socio-economic model of Cuba is a unique example of an attempt to build a welfare state in extremely unfavorable conditions. Over the course of 30 years, since the collapse of the USSR and the so-cialist bloc, Cuban society has undergone several major transfor-mations, the most radical were the reforms of Raul Castro, which began in 2008 and were finally enshrined in the new constitution 11 years lat-er. In this article, the author puts forward a hypothesis that these re-forms are not something qualitatively new, but rather reflect the acceler-ating pace of transformations that were laid back during the "special pe-riod in peacetime", the most critical stage in the adaptation of Cuban society to new foreign economic and foreign policy realities. The author analyzes the key features of the economic policy of the Cuban govern-ment during this period, as well as its specific features in comparison with the neoliberal reforms that became mainstream for the post-soviet states.