Caviar with Rum

1. Introduction
Jacqueline Loss, José Manuel Prieto

2. Timeline of Soviet-Russian-Cuban Relations from 1959 to the Present
Jacqueline Loss, José Manuel Prieto

Part I. Ostalgie: Cuban Style

3. The Muñequitos Rusos Generation
Aurora Jácome

4. Nostalgia
Reina María Rodríguez

5. Roxy the Red
Pedro González Reinoso

Part II. Communicating Vessels

6. The Rebel Children of the Cuban Revolution: Notes on the History of “Cuban Sots Art”
Juan Carlos Betancourt

7. Toward a Cuban October
Ernesto Menéndez-Conde

8. Around the Sun: The Adventures of a Wayward Satellite
Jorge Ferrer

9. The Mammoth That Wouldn’t Die
Carlos Espinosa Domínguez

10. Heberto Padilla, the First Dissident (of the Cuban Revolution)
José Manuel Prieto

Part III. The Recalcitrant Ajiaco

11. … so, Borscht Doesn’t Mix into the Ajiaco?: An Essay of Self-Ethnography on the Young Post-Soviet Diaspora in Cuba
Dmitri Prieto Samsonov, Polina Martínez Shvietsova

12. Dispatches from the War Zone
Tonel

13. Fnimaniev! Fnimaniev! The Hare and the Turtle: The Black Mona
Gertrudis Rivalta Oliva

14. Persistent Matrioshkas
Jacqueline Loss

Part IV. The Imaginary Tractor

15. The Inventor, the Machine, and the New Man
Ariana Hernández-Reguant

16. What the Russians Left Behind
Yoss

Part V. Diplomatic and Economic Coquetterie

17. Socialism as the Main Soviet Legacy in Cuba
Yuri Pavlov

18. Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World
Mervyn J. Bain

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics, Postcolonial/World Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, North American Literature, History of the Americas