The Grenada Revolution

A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE BROAD IMPLICATIONS OF MARXIST REVOLUTION POLITICS AND THE EVENTUAL INVASION OF THE ISLAND NATIONContributions by Horace G. Campbell Ralph E. Gonsalves Kari H. I. Grenade Wendy C. Grenade David Hinds Curtis Jacobs Tennyson S. D. Joseph Patsy Lewis Don Marshall Brian Meeks and Hilbourne A. WatsonGrenada experienced much turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s culminating in an armed Marxist revolution a bloody military coup and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent Fury a United States-led invasion. Wendy C. Grenade combines various perspectives to tell a Caribbean story about this revolution weaving together historical accounts of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop the New Jewel Leftist Movement and contemporary analysis. There is much controversy: though the Organization of American States formally requested intervention from President Ronald Reagan world media coverage was largely negative and skeptical if not baffled by the action which resulted in a rapid defeat and the deposition of the Revolutionary Military Council.By examining the possibilities and contradictions of the Grenada Revolution the contributors draw upon thirty years of hindsight to illuminate a crucial period of the Cold War. Beyond geopolitics the book interrogates but transcends the nuances and peculiarities of Grenada's political history to situate this revolution in its larger Caribbean and global context. In doing so contributors seek to unsettle old debates while providing fresh understandings about a critical period in the Caribbean's postcolonial experience. This collection throws into sharp focus the centrality of the Grenada Revolution offering a timely contribution to Caribbean scholarship and to wider understanding of politics in small developing postcolonial societies.Wendy C. Grenade Grenada West Indies is a lecturer in political science Department of Government Sociology and Social Work Faculty of Social Sciences the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Barbados. She has authored several scholarly articles on politics in Grenada.