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Sergey Mazov - A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964 - 9780804760591 - V9780804760591
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A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964

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Description for A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964 Hardback. "Portions of this book were originally published as Politika SSSR v Zapadnoi Afrike, 1956-1964: neizvestnye stranitsy istorii kholodnoi voiny (Moscow: Nauka, 2008); translated by the author"--T.p. verso. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFJC; 3JJ; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 699.

A Distant Front in the Cold War reveals West Africa as a significant site of Cold War conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although the region avoided the extreme tensions of the standoff in Eastern Europe or in the Cuban missile crisis, it nevertheless offers a vivid example of political, economic, and propagandistic rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR.

For Africa, this was a critical period characterized by decolonization and the formation of African countries' first foreign policies. The United States and the Soviet Union both hoped to win the sympathies of the newly established states, and ... Read more

Mazov presents evidence from previously inaccessible or unknown documents in Russian and U.S. archives, as well as an international sampling of recent scholarly works. The rich historical account pays particular attention to the repercussions of Soviet West African experience on future Soviet foreign policy, especially in the Third World.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Cold War International History Project
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804760591
SKU
V9780804760591
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About Sergey Mazov
Sergey Mazov is a professor and chief research fellow at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow.

Reviews for A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964
"This book addresses a subject on which almost nothing is available on the Russian side, and so it covers a very important 'blank spot of history'."
Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya
George Washington University
"For the first time, this book uncovers flaws in Soviet policy toward Africa, inherent weaknesses relating to the lack of resources and imagination, bureaucratic impediments ... Read more

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