Contacts in address book do not show in iCloud

I have set up the iCloud and got Calendar working fine. Contacts don't. When I merge contacts from iCloud they don't upload and disappear from my Address Book in my iMac ( I have a back up so I ca restore them....). I tried several times but no result. They are fine in my iPhone, though.
Anybody can help?
Thanks!
Claudio

I ask this because I presume that my Macbook Address book is the master of all, and if I add a contact in here for example, it would be pushed to iCloud and then to my iPhone? But when I add contacts or make changes in my Address book on Macbook Pro, these are not appearing in iCloud
I think you misunderstand the way it works.  First, there are two places on your computer to see the data. 
1. "On my Mac" that is not synced to iCloud. 
2. "iCloud" that is a slave to the Master iCloud dataset. It is somewhat similar to IMAP email.
When importing data, you can choose which place it goes to. The option is a bit obscure, you need to point to the icon to produce the alternative location ("On my Mac" or "iCloud").
Don't close iCloud in System Preferences (the term "logout" is confusing, It's actually like deleting an email accout). If you want to "logout" say, on a shared computer, do it in Safari as a session logout.
What your iPhone or iCloud on your computer is seeing, is the iCloud dataset. With the proviso that it sometimes takes a while for the server to reflect the changes.  You also see the "On my Mac" dataset, which may look like duplicate data, if it is the same.
If your changes to the address book on your computer are not being changed in iCloud, it is either a server problem, or more likely, that you are working in the "On my Mac" dataset, which is not synced to iCloud.
If you want to have a simple iCloud only system, I suggest you:
A. make archive copies of the Address Book by File>Export>Archive
(and each Calendar in iCal as .ics files by File>Export>Export)
B. Delete the "On my Mac" Datasets.
You are less likely to see duplicate data showing, unless it all got horribly merged in iCloud, and duplicated up there already. 
(Beware the "merge" option when creating an iCloud account, if there is already data in it)

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