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Red Calypso: The Grenadian Revolution and Its Aftermath, by Geoffrey Wagner (Regnery Gateway, 264 pp., $12.95)

The Communist regime in Grenada lasted for four years, from 1979 to 1983. Its short history illustrates perfectly the essence of twentieth-century Communism. This small island, a place of legendary beauty, was during this short period turned into a comic-nightmare version of the Leninist state, which Geoffrey Wagner captures in all its grotesquery.

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Red Calypso: The Grenadian Revolution and Its Aftermath, by Geoffrey Wagner (Regnery Gateway, 264 pp., $12.95)

The Communist regime in Grenada lasted for four years, from 1979 to 1983. Its short history illustrates perfectly the essence of twentieth-century Communism. This small island, a place of legendary beauty, was during this short period turned into a comic-nightmare version of the Leninist state, which Geoffrey Wagner captures in all its grotesquery.