Research Catalog

Title

Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa : three centuries of encounters / edited by Maxim Matusevich.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Matusevich, Maxim

Description

vi, 411 p. : ill., maps; 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

• Africa > Relations > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Relations > Africa
• Africa > Relations > Russia (Federation)
• Russia (Federation) > Relations > Africa
• Africa > Relations > Russia
• Russia > Relations > Africa

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-400) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 1592213294 (cloth)
• 9781592213290 (cloth)
• 1592213308 (paper)
• 9781592213306 (paper)

LCCN

^^2006027484

OCLC

• 71044701
• SCSB-11042587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library