>>1815731>There's also the fact that this service economy only existed in Havana and Santiago, the rest of the country had a plantation economy and was in a semi colonial semi feudal situation.True but but of the 5,000,000 people who lived in Cuba in 1953 1,235,000 lived in Havanah:
>https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20870/havana/populationand 165,000 lived In Santiago
>https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20876/santiago-de-cuba/populationThats well over 20%/ 1/5th of the population livng in an urban service economy and your also leaving out the processing of sugar cain which was also done on the island which is industrial production rather then agricultural work.
Again not saying Cuba was at the level of economic development of the United States or the UK but this still leaps and bounds above where china or russia were durring their revolutions.
It seems to be the nation with the highest percapita GDP of any nation to ever have a communist revolution.
(be interested if anyone has a counter example to this as I cant find any)