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Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa : three centuries of encounters
- Title
- Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa : three centuries of encounters / edited by Maxim Matusevich.
- Publication
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2007]
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- Additional Authors
- Matusevich, Maxim
- Description
- vi, 411 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- This volume contains an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the history of political and cultural ties between Africa and Russia/Soviet Union. The contributors uncover and explore the multiple facets of the relationship that has often remained overlooked by scholars and the general public alike.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-400) and index.
- Contents
- The African origins of Alexander Pushkin / Frances M. Somers Cocks -- African imprints on Russia: an historical overview / Allison Blakely -- Black Hajj to "red Mecca": Africans and afro-Americans at KUTV, 1925-1938 / Woodford McClellan -- The Russian routes of Claude McKay's internationalism / Kate Baldwin -- African history: a view from behind the Kremlin wall / Apollon Davidson, Irina Filatova -- Soviet and Russian research on Ethiopia and eastern Africa: a second look in the context of the area studies crisis / Colin Darch -- The African Russians: children of the Cold War / Charles Quist-Adade -- "Friendship of peoples" after the fall: violence and pan-African community in post-Soviet Moscow / Jessica Allina-Pisano, Eric Allina-Pisano -- To the other end of the Earth: Russia and South Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries / Apollon Davidson, Irina Filatova -- The Russians in Ethiopia: aspirations of progress / Richard Pankhurst -- "Only he who has no friends cannot say good-bye": Alex La Guma's A Soviet journey (1978) and the contingent history of covert travel to the USSR in South African politics / Christopher J. Lee -- A Socialist diaspora: Ali Sultan Issa, the Soviet Union, and the Zanzibari revolution / Thomas Burgess -- Soviet policy in west Africa: an episode of the Cold War, 1956-1964 / Sergey Mazov -- The Soviet involvement in Southern African liberation struggles, 1960-1990 / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Beyond the fairy tales: the reality of Soviet involvement in the liberation of Southern Africa / Vladimir Shubin -- Visions of grandeur ... interrupted: the Soviet Union through Nigerian eyes / Maxim Matusevich.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-1442
- ISBN
- 1592213294
- 9781592213290
- 1592213308
- 9781592213306
- LCCN
- 2006027484
- OCLC
- 71044701
- Title
- Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa : three centuries of encounters / edited by Maxim Matusevich.
- Publisher
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2007]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-400) and index.
- Added Author
- Matusevich, Maxim, editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-1442