The hidden thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era

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Statement of responsibility:Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson
Main Author: Filatova, Irina (Author)
Other Authors: Davidson, Apollon Borisovič, 1929- (Other)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Roggebai : Jonathan Ball, 2013
Physical Description:XII,553 S. : Ill., Reg., Lit. S. 533-545, Lit.Hinw. S. 497-532
ISBN:9781868425006 ; 9781868424993
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Summary:Introduction : Why South Africa and Russia? . - Three Centuries : Russia and South Africa Before the Soviet Era . - Enter the Bolsheviks . - New Politics and New Business Contacts . - In the Communist International . - Indoctrination or Scholarship? : Teaching and Studying South Africa at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers . - The 'New Jerusalem' : The USSR's Friends and Fellow Travellers . - Together against Hitler . - The Red Peril : the USSR in South Africa's Cold War Ideology and Policy . - Against Colonialism and Apartheid : South Africa in Soviet Theory and Policy in the Cold War Era . - The Secret War . - The Regular War . - The ANC, the SACP and the USSR . - Comrades in Arms : Soviet Military Aid to the ANC . - 'Moscow Gold', Soviet Universities and Much Else . - The Promised Land . - Perestroika : Winds of Change in the North . - Pretoriastroika : Winds of Change in the South . - Volte Face : Establishing Diplomatic Relations . - Just Another Country? . - Postscript : The USSR and the 'South African Miracle'