New Book / Discussion—“Cheddi Jagan and the Cold War: 1946-1992”

Cheddi Jagan (1918–1997) was the first major politician in the Anglophone Caribbean enraptured by Marxism-Leninism as espoused by the Soviet Union − the beacon for the radical transformation of colonies like his country, British Guiana (Guyana). Moreover, he sought to persuade US President Kennedy, that although this was the...