The Soviet Union and Black Africa
Author | : Christopher Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Robinson |
Publisher | : Acropolis Books (NY) |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Robert Robinson (1907?-1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union, where he spent 44 years after the government refused to give him an exit visa for return. Starting with a one-year contract by Russians to work in the Soviet Union, he twice renewed his contract. He became trapped by the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and the government's refusal to give him an exit visa. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering during the war. He finally left the Soviet Union in 1974 on an approved trip to Uganda, where he asked for and was given asylum. He married an African-American professor working there. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1976, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union."--Wikipedia.
Author | : Joy Gleason Carew |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081354985X |
One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. In Blacks, Reds, and Russians, Joy Gleason Carew offers insight into the political strategies that often underlie relationships between different peoples and countries. Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist United States, found unprecedented opportunities in communist Russia.
Author | : Milène Charles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.
Author | : Helen Desfosses |
Publisher | : New York : Praeger Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This study analyzes Soviet theories regarding the national-building process in black Africa.
Author | : Paul Tabori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evgeniĭ Anatolʹevich Tarabrin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Radoslav A. Yordanov |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498529100 |
At the height of the Cold War, Soviet ideologues, policymakers, diplomats, and military officers perceived the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the future reserve of socialism, holding the key to victory over Western forces. The zero-sum nature of East-West global competition induced the United States to try to thwart Soviet ambitions. The result was predictable: the two superpowers engaged in proxy struggles against each other in faraway, little-understood lands, often ending up entangled in protracted and highly destructive local fights that did little to serve their own agendas. Using a wealth of recently declassified sources, this book tells the complex story of Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa, a narrowly defined geographic entity torn by the rivalry of two large countries (Ethiopia and Somalia), from the beginning of the Cold War until the demise of the Soviet Union. At different points in the twentieth century, this region—arguably one of the poorest in the world—attracted broad international interest and large quantities of advanced weaponry, making it a Cold War flashpoint. The external actors ultimately failed to achieve what they wanted from the local conflicts—a lesson relevant for U.S. policymakers today as they ponder whether to use force abroad in the wake of the unhappy experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author | : Allison Blakely |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Meredith L. Roman |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496216660 |
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials had already labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children’s stories, films, newspaper articles, political education campaigns, and court proceedings exposed the hypocrisy of America’s racial democracy. In contrast the Soviets represented the USSR itself as a superior society where racism was absent and identified African Americans as valued allies in resisting an imminent imperialist war against the first workers’ state. Meredith L. Roman’s Opposing Jim Crow examines the period between 1928 and 1937, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority. Although Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously directed attention to the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as citizens of the United States. Soviet policy also challenged the prevailing white supremacist notion that blacks were biologically inferior and thus unworthy of equality with whites. African Americans of various political and socioeconomic backgrounds became indispensable contributors to the Soviet antiracism campaign and helped officials in Moscow challenge the United States’ claim to be the world’s beacon of democracy and freedom.