A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada 0822936399, 9780822936398

Twelve essays address the political and cultural features of the Grenada experience, in light of the 1979 uprising that

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Revolution Aborted, Jorge Heine

Part 1 | The Domestic Record:
People's Power in Theory and Practice, Tony Thorndike;
Socialism and Cultural Transformation in Grenada, Paget Henry;
Macroeconomic Growth Under the People’s Revolutionary Government: An Assessment, Wallace Joeffield-Napier.

Part 2 | International Affairs:
The Foreign Policy of the People’s Revolutionary Government, Anthony Payne;
Socialism via Foreign Aid: The PRG's Economic Policies with the Soviet Bloc, Frederic L. Pryor;
The United States and the Grenada Revolution: Who Pushed First and Why?, Robert Pastor.

Part 3 | Crisis and Aftermath:
The Hero and the Apparatchik: Charismatic Leadership, Political Management, and Crisis in Revolutionary Grenada, Jorge Heine;
Small States, Eastern Caribbean Security and the Grenada Intervention, Vaughan Lewis;
The Restoration of Electoral Politics in Grenada, Selwyn Ryan.

Part 4 | A Comparative Assessment:
Whither Caribbean Socialism? Grenada, Jamaica, and Guyana in Perspective, Carl Stone;
Democracy and Socialism: Reflections on the Grenada Experience, Laurence Whitehead;
Size, Pluralism and the Westminster Model of Democracy: Implications for the Eastern Caribbean, Arend Lijphart.

Grenadian Politics and Society: A Bibliographic Guide, Jorge Heine
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