The hidden thread

Irina Filatova (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

568 Seiten

2013
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA (Verlag)
978-1-86842-499-3 (ISBN)

Keine Verlagsinformationen verfügbar

Artikel merken

The hidden thread is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length.

This is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length. The story is told with insight and depth by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, who have had a decades long association researching and writing on Russian and South African politics and history. This insightful work follows the often surprising twists and turns of the history of South Africa's relationship with Russia and its people which started in the eighteenth century and is still very much alive today.
The story evolves from the Russian volunteers who fought alongside the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War to South Africans who participated in the Russian revolution and civil war; from the Russian Jewish immigration to South Africa to the close involvement of the South African communists in the Communist International; from the Soviet consulates in South Africa and the activities of South Africa's Friends of the Soviet Union Society during the Second World War to the vicissitudes of the Cold War and the hot' war in Angola; from the SACP and ANC's relations with the USSR to the volte-face of perestroika and South Africa's transition and to today's business, political, cultural and sometimes criminal connections between Russians and South Africans.

Irina Filatova is professor of the State University, High School of Economics in Moscow, and professor emeritus and senior research fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She specialises in African and Russian history and has written three books.

To the Turn of the 20th Century; Twentieth Century Arrives; The Russian Revolution & South Africa; The Communist International & South Africa; Together Against Hitler; The Cold War, the USSR & South Africa; ANCs Soviet World; Perestroika: the Winds of Change in the USSR; Pretoriastroika: the Winds of Change in South Africa; Volte-Face; The Grey Dawn of the New Era; The New Beginnings; Conclusion -- The Soviet Legacy in South Africa.

Zusatzinfo	Illustrations (some col.), ports.
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-86842-499-5 / 1868424995
ISBN-13	978-1-86842-499-3 / 9781868424993
Zustand	Neuware