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GUERRILLAS IN POWER K. S. Karol Hill and Wang; 1970 550 pp.; $12.50 CUBA: SOCIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT Rene Dumont Grove Press...
...last year's Venceremos brigades re-opened interest in the fate of the Cuban revolution, many books deluged the market to meet the new demand. Two of the most recent entries, both translated from French, Guerrillas in Power by K. S. Karol and Cuba: Socialism and Development by Rene Dumont, provide seriously interested readers with the most thorough studies of Cuba's revolutionary problems. Although sympathetic to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, both Dumont and Karol remain pessimistic about Castro's leadership...
Despite some of Dumont's arrogant posturing, Cuba: Socialism and Development gives a concise overview of the Cuban economy. Even though the book originated in French in 1964, two afterwards reasonably update the work. And Dumont covers the material with more knowledge than his predecessors. The book rewards, if only because its discussion of Cuba's economic development is in a field whose dearth of information endangers future experiments...
...understand the problems Cuba faced alone in 1963 one must turn to economic questions so well covered by Dumont, one of the world's foremost socialist economic experts...
...advantage, Cuba has very rich soil located in a "marginal tropical climate" mitigated by sea and good rain. The country's supply of raw materials severely limited industrial possibilities, for example, energy needs. For this reason, Castro's hasty industrialization efforts with Russian aid and ideology (not mentioned by Dumont) was unsuited to Cuba's particular conditions...