Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa : : New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s / / ed. by Chris Saunders, Helder Adegar Fonseca, Lena Dallywater.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Adegar Fonseca, Helder ,; Dallywater, Lena,; Saunders, Chris,
• MitwirkendeR: Dallywater, Lena,; Engel, Ulf,; Fonseca, Helder Adegar,; Grilli, Matteo,; Luque, Alba Martín,; Mazov, Sergey V,; Menclová, Barbora,; Moledo, Ana,; Möser, Robin E.,; Radonjić, Nemanja,; Ribeiro, João Fusco,; Saunders, Chris,; Voevodskiy, Alexandr,; Yordanov, Radoslav,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Dialectics of the Global , 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 372 p.)

It is now widely recognised that a Cold War perspective falls short in unfolding the complex geographies of connections and the multipolarity of actions and transactions that were shaped through the movement of individuals and ideas from Africa to the "East" and from the "East" t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• On the Series
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• Part I: Lusophone Connections
• Introduction
• 2 Choosing Eastern Partners: The First Phase of the “Angolan Revolution” (1960–1964)
• 3 UNITA, China, and the Soviet Bloc: Rivalries, Constraints, and Cooperation (1964–1974)
• 4 The Quest for the Solidarity of the World’s Working Class: Luso-African Liberation Movements and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) during the 1960s and early 1970s
• 5 “We Have Made History”: Yugoslav Visual Solidarity with FRELIMO’s Struggle (1967–1975)
• 6 Czechoslovak Experts in Independent Angola
• Part II: Southern African Entanglements
• Introduction
• 7 The Sino-Soviet Split and Soviet Policy towards Southern African Liberation Movements in the early 1960s
• 8 Between Socialism and Non-Alignment: The Basutoland Congress Party and the Soviet Bloc
• 9 Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Ending of Apartheid in Southern Africa Reconsidered
• 10 Soviet Diplomats and Apartheid: South Africa’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• Part III: Euro-African Complexities
• Introduction
• 11 Anti-Colonial Constellations: The Belgrade All-African Students Conference of 1962
• 12 The Soviet Union and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970): Military and Technical Cooperation with the Federal Military Government of Nigeria
• 13 The Warsaw Pact and Libya: Economic, Political, and Military Relations, 1969–1989
• 14 Shadows of the Past? Some South African and Ethiopian Legacies
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Index