A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada

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Twelve essays address the political and cultural features of the Grenada experience, in light of the 1979 uprising that toppled Prime Minister Eric Gairy, and the subsequent U.S. invasion of 1983. The contributors discuss theoretical issues that go to the heart of dilemmas faced by many small, developing societies. 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 Notes on Contributors