GREGORY WILLIAM SAND is Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Master of the Arts Program in International Relations at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to researching a companion volume to Soviet Aims in Central America, on the crisis in U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America, Dr. Sand is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute to complete research for a book on Truman's post-Presidential years, 1953-1972.

• Foreword by Lewis A. Tambs Introduction: The Americas: Soviet Strategy and World War III Nicaragua in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1959-1979 From Revolution to Leninist State The Sandinistas and Human Rights From Consolidation to Expanded War Soviet Aims Unmasked: An Appraisal Averting Checkmate: "Western Strategy" Reconsidered Appendix 1: Maps Appendix 2 Bibliographical Essay Index

GREGORY WILLIAM SAND is Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Master of the Arts Program in International Relations at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to researching a companion volume to Soviet Aims in Central America, on the crisis in U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America, Dr. Sand is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute to complete research for a book on Truman's post-Presidential years, 1953-1972.

• Foreword by Lewis A. Tambs Introduction: The Americas: Soviet Strategy and World War III Nicaragua in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1959-1979 From Revolution to Leninist State The Sandinistas and Human Rights From Consolidation to Expanded War Soviet Aims Unmasked: An Appraisal Averting Checkmate: "Western Strategy" Reconsidered Appendix 1: Maps Appendix 2 Bibliographical Essay Index

GREGORY WILLIAM SAND is Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Master of the Arts Program in International Relations at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to researching a companion volume to Soviet Aims in Central America, on the crisis in U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America, Dr. Sand is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute to complete research for a book on Truman's post-Presidential years, 1953-1972.

• Foreword by Lewis A. Tambs Introduction: The Americas: Soviet Strategy and World War III Nicaragua in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1959-1979 From Revolution to Leninist State The Sandinistas and Human Rights From Consolidation to Expanded War Soviet Aims Unmasked: An Appraisal Averting Checkmate: "Western Strategy" Reconsidered Appendix 1: Maps Appendix 2 Bibliographical Essay Index