Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary. Loss 9780292762039 New<|

Dreaming in RussianThe Cuban Soviet Imaginary\nAuthor(s): Jacqueline Loss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292762039, 978-0292762039\nSynopsis\nThe specter of the Soviet Union lingers in Cuba, yet until now there has been no book-length work on the ways Cubans process their countrys relationship with the Soviet bloc. Dreaming in Russian at last brings into the light the reality that for nearly three decades, the Soviet Union subsidized the island economically, intervened in military matters, and exported distinct pedagogical and cultural models to Cuba. Drawing on interviews with Cuban artists and intellectuals, as well as treasures from cinematographic and bibliographic archives, Jacqueline Loss delivers the first book to show that Cuba remembers and retains many aspects of the Soviet era, far from shedding those cultural facets as relics of the Cold War.\n\nWeaving together intriguing, seldom-s.