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The USSR and Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Extract

Soviet African Policy is currently in a consolidation phase. It is true that the 1970's brought the Soviet Union great military and political successes in Angola and Ethiopia — successes which signaled not only a new stage in Soviet strategic capabilities but also a new ability and willingness to influence events far from its borders. However, these triumphs should not blind us to the constraints under which the USSR has labored, the resulting limits on its influence, and the ensuing move away from interventionist activism.

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Focus: Africa and Communism
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1987 

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Notes

1 R. Craig Nation, “Introduction” in R. Craig Nation and Mark V. Kauppi, eds., The Soviet Impact in Africa, D.C. Heath, 1984, p.4.

2 Legvold, Robert, “The Super Rivals: Conflict in the Third World”, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 57, Spring, 1979, p. 755.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also Jeremy Azrael and Stephen Sestanovich, “SuperpowerBalancing Acts”, Foreign Affairs, America and the World, 1985, p. 479.

3 Young, Crawford, “United States Policy Toward Africa: Silver Anniversary Reflections”, African Studies Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, September, 1984, p. 2.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Jerry Hough, The Struggle for the Third World, Brookings, 1986, p. 273.

5 Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, The Angolan War: A Study in Soviet Policy in the Third World, Westview, 1980, p. 149.

6 Young, op. cit., p. 4.

7 Kenneth Adelman in 1980; quoted in Young, op. cit., p. 5.

8 Legvold, Robert, “The Soviet Threat to Southern Africa”, in Robert Rotberg, et al, South Africa and Its Neighbors, Lexington, D.C. Heath, 1985, p. 27.Google Scholar

9 Gelman, Henry, “Rise and Fall of Detente”, Problems of Communism, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, March/April, 1985, p. 68.Google Scholar

10 Young, op. cit., p. 11.

11 Bienen, Henry, “Perspectives on Soviet Intervention in Africa”, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 95, No. 1, Spring, 1980, p. 40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12 R. Craig Nation, “S oviet Engagement in Africa”, in Nation and Kauppi, op. cit., p. 36.

13 Ibid.,p.37.

14 Legvold, “The Soviet Threat to Southern Africa”, p. 40.

15 Seth Singleton, “From Intervention for Consolidation: The Soviet Union and Southern Africa”, in Nation and Kauppi, op. cit., p. 108.