Cuban socialism : thirty years of controversy / Alfred Padula -- Socialist transitions and prospects for change in Cuba / Enrique A. Baloyra -- "We are the only ones and there is no alternative" : vanguard party politics in Cuba, 1975-1991 / Marifeli Paerez-Stable -- The comandante in his economic labyrinth / Sergio G. Roca -- Political-military relations since 1959 / Phyllis Greene Walker -- The nuanced lives of the intelligentsia / Peter T. Johnson -- The politics of dissidence : a challenge to the monolith / Juan M. del Aguila -- Youth in Cuba : resistance and accommodation / Damiaan J. Fernaandez -- Cuban-U.S. relations and political contradictions in Cuba / W. Raymond Duncan -- The impact of Soviet reforms on Cuban socialism / J. Richard Planas.