Is the "updating" of the Cuban model a variant of Soviet-era economic reforms?

Abstract

The late 1980s were the scene of transformations in the countries of the so-called "really existing" socialism in Europe, which attempted to replace the "centralized planning" scheme with a decentralized model. The process failed in all cases and, in the 1990s, the process ended up consisting in the establishment of capitalist economies, something that in Cuba's official narrative is identified as "demergerization". The experiences of China and Vietnam, which will be addressed in a forthcoming text, were very different.