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Agostinho Neto
Amilcar Cabral
Angola
Angolan Civil War
Author_Natalia Telepneva
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Cold War in Africa
Cubans in Africa
Czechoslovakia in Africa
decolonization of Portuguese Empire
Eduardo Mondlane
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FRELIMO
Guinea-Bissau
insurgency and counter-insurgency in Africa
KGB in Africa
Leonid Brezhnev
liberation struggle in Southern Africa
liberation struggle in the Portuguese colonies
Lusophone Africa
Mozambique
MPLA
Nikita Khrushchev
PAIGC
Portuguese Empire and the Cold War
Samora Machel
Soviet intelligence in the Third World
Soviet intervention in the Third World
Soviet military intelligence in Africa
Soviet policy in Africa
Soviet support for liberation movements in Africa
the struggle for independence in Portuguese colonies
Product details
- ISBN 9781469665863
- Weight: 199g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau—and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, Natalia Telepneva bridges the gap between the narratives of individual anticolonial movements and those of superpower rivalry in sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War.
Drawing on newly available archival sources from Russia and Eastern Europe and interviews with key participants, Telepneva emphasizes the agency of African liberation leaders who enlisted the superpower into their movements via their relationships with middle-ranking members of the Soviet bureaucracy. These administrators had considerable scope to shape policies in the Portuguese colonies which in turn increased the Soviet commitment to decolonization in the wider region. An innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War.
Drawing on newly available archival sources from Russia and Eastern Europe and interviews with key participants, Telepneva emphasizes the agency of African liberation leaders who enlisted the superpower into their movements via their relationships with middle-ranking members of the Soviet bureaucracy. These administrators had considerable scope to shape policies in the Portuguese colonies which in turn increased the Soviet commitment to decolonization in the wider region. An innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War.
Natalia Telepneva is lecturer of international history at the University of Strathclyde.
