In February 1973, an African-American newspaper published a series of three articles about Africans in the Soviet Union, in particular those in Abkhazia. The article below is the second in the series. Many Africans Came To The Soviet Union During Turkish Rule THE AFRO-AMERICAN- FEBRUARY 10,...
Filatova, I..1999. Indoctrination or scholarship? Education of Africans at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in the Soviet Union, 1923-1937, in Paedagogica Historica, International Journal of the History of Education. 35:1....
Marxists in the Soviet Union wanted to achieve the aims of the Bolshevik Revolution, capitalists in the US were eager to export the ideas of the American Revolution, and imperialists within European nation-states sought to spread the benefits of the Industrial Revolution. African nationalists in ...
It is the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of neoliberal globalization that makes Marxism seem anachronistic; Marx’s faith in the inevitability of communism seems out of place in a world where capitalism has stubbornly remained. But, even in the face of that capitalism, Marx’s assu...
Of course, Britain was in alliance with the Soviet Union and the United States for most of the war. But the country could have fallen to Germany before the USSR and the US joined the war. That it did not is due to the hard work and fortitude of many ordinary Britons of yesteryear who...
Conn., landed the huge jet, using all but a few feet of the narrow, short runway with a hump in its middle. At the end of the airstrip lay the remains of wrecked Soviet planes that overshot the runway and ended at the bottom of steep cliffs, testimony to the airstrip’s tricky natur...
Soviet UnionEastern Blocsocialismprofessional careersDuring the Cold War, more than 50,000 African students attended tertiary education in the Soviet Union, and tens of thousands studied in other Eastern Bloc countries. The collapse of socialist regimes, however, nourished an assumption that these ...
Additionally, the constantly increasing military sphere of influence of the Soviet Union within the Indian Ocean area has caused the strategic import of the Republic to increasingly occupy the attentions of the United States. The political significance of South Africa lies in the system of government...
new African sovereign states attempted to reverse the course of their histories by announcing that health and education would be free for all citizens鈥攊n line with their leaders' common admiration for the socialist ideology and rhetoric of the Non-Aligned Movement states and the Soviet Union. T...
Filatova, I..1999. Indoctrination or scholarship? Education of Africans at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in the Soviet Union, 1923-1937, in Paedagogica Historica, International Journal of the History of Education. 35:1....