The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over
twenty years, Inside the Revolution offers a rare, close view of
how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one
Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen months of
fieldwork, in a municipality she calls by the fictional name
Palmera, to present a vivid account of the lives and thoughts of
residents, many of whom have lived inside the revolution for more
than thirty-five years.In Palmera, support for the socialist
program remains strong. Rosendahl attributes continuing loyalty to
four conditions: improvements in the standard of living from 1959
to 1990, the uniformity and omnipresence of political
communications from the government, a historical emphasis on local
participation in the revolution, and the consistency of
revolutionary ideals with traditional machista expectations and
practices. Through an analysis of ideology and practice in
contemporary Cuba, Rosendahl documents how its citizens support the
present political system, and how reciprocal economics between
households and ideas about gender both reinforce and challenge that
system. Rosendahl also explains how those who oppose state
socialism resist participation in society through inaction or
withdrawal.
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