Grenada and Soviet/Cuban Policy: Internal Crisis and U.S./OECS Intervention

Edited by Jiri Valenta and Herbert J. Ellison

Reviewed by Robert D. Crassweller

Summer 1986

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Title Grenada and Soviet/Cuban Policy: Internal Crisis and U.S./OECS Intervention

Author Edited by Jiri Valenta and Herbert J. Ellison

Publisher Westview Press

Year 1986

Pages 512 pp.

Price $38.50

An exhaustive examination of every facet of the recent Grenada crisis, based on analysis of the famous captured documents, which are reproduced here in an appendix of 228 pages. The volume consists of 12 essays and related discussions evolved from papers given at a conference in August 1984, with representation from academia, the media and research institutions. There is also a chapter of findings and recommendations, reflecting not a consensus but an exchange of ideas.

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Grenada and Soviet/Cuban Policy: Internal Crisis and U.S./OECS Intervention

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