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| Author(s): |
Joana Salem Vasconcelos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia |
| Defense date: | 2013-10-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Plinio Soares de Arruda Sampaio Junior;
Pedro Ramos;
Eduardo Barros Mariutti;
Waldir José Rampinelli
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| Advisor: | Plinio Soares de Arruda Sampaio Junior |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation analyses the trajectory of the agrarian structure transformations triggered by the Cuban revolution in 1959, up to the iconic 1970 sugar harvest, when the whole society undertook the effort to produce 10 million metric tons of sugar. We hold that the Cuban revolution promoted a historic fight against underdevelopment and the conditions of its reproduction: the modernized plantation, the social segregation and the external dependence. In contrast to these conditions, egalitarianism and national sovereignty were erected as aims of the revolution, linked to the socialist development project. The agrarian reforms of May 17, 1959 and October 10, 1963 were the engines of revolutionary transformations. The agrarian structure was modified regarding three main dimensions: the landownership regime, the crops regime and the labor regime. In these dimensions, the debates about the transition to socialism intertwined with the polemics on the means of overcoming underdevelopment. We reconstitute the controversies over the new economic forms of agrarian structure; analyze the tensions between diversification and sugarcane monoculture; discuss the choices regarding the development strategy based on agriculture; explain the conditions of the sugar specialization permanence and its relations with the new international insertion of Cuba in the Soviet bloc. At the end, we seek to clarify the achievements and limits of the Cuban project for overcoming underdevelopment, which toured the narrow historical paths of possible (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/03343-0 - "Socialist Accumulation" in Cuba: the legacy of plantation in the agrarian reform - 1959-1970 |
| Grantee: | Joana Salem Vasconcelos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |