Creole - Leninism: Grenada: A Case Study.

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 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. (Author).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA154944

Entities

People

  • A. B. Mckenzie

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • California
  • Central America
  • Commerce
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Coups
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Rocket Propelled Grenades
  • Terrorists
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.