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THIS ARTICLE DEALS WITH THE U.S. INVASION OF GRENADA, THE RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND REGIONAL POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. INTERRIM REPORTS FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CLAIMED THAT THE ISLAND (S) WAS "A VICTIM OF SOVIET INTERNATIONALISM." THE AMERICAN INVASION IS DOCUMENTED BY SOME 17 TONS OF DOCUMENTS, MANY OF WHICH REFER TO THE "NEW JEWEL" MOVEMENT SUPPORTED BY THE U.S.S.R. THE QUESTION IS POSED AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE RUSSIANS WERE USING GRENADA AS A BASE FOR A SOVIET THRUST INTO THE CARIBBEAN. RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMMUNIST PARTIES IN OTHER CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND POLITICAL PARTIES ARE ESTABLISHED. THE QUESTION OF AN "ARMS BUILDUP" IS ADDRESSED AND REFUTED IN THE SENSE THAT THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION TOOK THE POSITION THAT THE PRESENCE OF SOVIET ADVISORS AND ARMS FAR EXCEEDED THE NEEDS OF THE ISLAND.

Whether Grenada was being used by the Soviet Union as a base for its spread of international communist revolution and whether its military buildup was meant for intervention in other Caribbean nations.

In Part 1 of this book, Dr. Schoenhals places the Grenadian Revolution and its aftermath in historical perspective. He explores the Anglo-French rivalry over the island, the period of slavery, and the British colonial administration and gives particular emphasis to the Gairy decades (1951-1979). His discussion of the People's Revolutionary Government is based on extensive Interviews with the leadership of the New Jewel Movement, foreign diplomats, and Grenadian citizens, and on a review of documents captured by the United States during occupation of the island. In Part 2, Dr. Melanson, after briefly reviewing the nature of U.S. interests In the region and U.S.-Caribbean relations during the Nixon years, focuses on the Carter and Reagan administrations' policies in the Caribbean and relations with the Grenadian government. He examines the justification offered by President Reagan for the 1983 intervention, domestic responses to the action in the United States, and its implications for Reagan's Central American policies. Finally, he considers whether the action will prove to be a prelude to a new domestic consensus about the use of U.S. military power in the Third World.

Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen für die Entstehung des New Jewel Movement und der sozialistischen Transformation der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Verhältnisse in Grenada. Darstellung der Beziehungen zum Ostblock, der internen Machtkonflikte und der Einflußnahme der Sowjetunion