Creole Leninism : Grenada a case study
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Authors
McKenzie, Alan B.
Subjects
Grenada
Caribbean
Maurice Bishop
Soviet Political Intervention
Caribbean
Maurice Bishop
Soviet Political Intervention
Advisors
Valenta, Jiri
Date of Issue
1984-12
Date
December 1984
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Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis examines the socialist transformation and
subsequent militarization and violent political polarization
of Grenada in view of the primary source documents that were
recovered by the joint Caribbean task force in October 1983.
Chapter one presents a brief history and the rise to
power of Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement. Chapter
two demonstrates the strategic significance of the Caribbean
basin to both the United States and the Soviet Union.
Chapter three traces the Soviet, Cuban and other communist
bloc assistance, to Grenada with an examination of
Grenadian foreign policy during the Bishop regime.
Chapter four reviews the assassination of Maurice
Bishop with contrasting parallels of Soviet decisionmaking
in Angola and Afghanistan.
Chapter five concludes that the attempt to subvert and
replace the populist Bishop with Moscow trained Coard, was
orchestrated and sponsored by the Soviet Union.
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Thesis
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Department
National Security Affairs (NSA)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.