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    Cold War Liberation

    The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975

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    Author(s)
    Telepneva, Natalia
    Collection
    Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP); Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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. We are proud to offer this book in our usual print and ebook formats, plus as an open-access edition available through the Sustainable History Monograph Project.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53180
    Keywords
    Soviet policy in Africa;liberation struggle in the Portuguese colonies;decolonization of Portuguese Empire;Portuguese Empire and the Cold War;Cold War in Africa;Soviet support for liberation movements in Africa;Angolan Civil War;KGB in Africa;the struggle for independence in Portuguese colonies;Soviet intervention in the Third World;insurgency and counter-insurgency in Africa;Soviet intelligence in the Third World;liberation struggle in Southern Africa;Angola;Mozambique;Guinea-Bissau;Cubans in Africa;Czechoslovakia in Africa;Soviet military intelligence in Africa;Lusophone Africa;Nikita Khrushchev;Leonid Brezhnev;Amilcar Cabral;Agostinho Neto;Samora Machel;Eduardo Mondlane;MPLA;FRELIMO;PAIGC
    DOI
    10.5149/9781469665887_Telepneva
    ISBN
    9781469665870, 9781469665863, 9781469665887, 9781469665887
    Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
    Publisher website
    https://uncpress.org/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Grantor
    • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    Series
    New Cold War History,
    Classification
    African history
    Cold wars and proxy conflicts
    National liberation and independence
    Pages
    304
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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