Cuba Was Different explores Cuban Communist Party (PCC) views following the collapse of Eastern European and Soviet socialism through the lens of the official d

Written sources on the collapse -- Granma and the written news as a method -- Analyzing the news accounts -- Reflections on the written news -- Contextualizing

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on th

Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Jou

Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers, and artists celebrate the possibility of overcoming divisions of politics and hate