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Aspects of Soviet–African Economic Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

G. Rubinstein
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The last decade has witnessed a rapid development of economic relations between the Soviet Union and independent African countries. In examining certain economic and geographical aspects of this development, it should be borne in mind that Soviet–African economic relations are a quite new trend in world affairs. Before World War II the Soviet Union's foreign trade was conducted mainly with the advanced capitalist countries. Since the majority of the under-developed countries were very limited. Egypt was the only African country trading with the Soviet Union at the end of the 1920s. But Great Britain, then dominating Egypt, blocked any trade agreement between the two states. The volume of trade between them was very small, and at the beginning of World War II it ceased almost completely.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , October 1970 , pp. 389 - 404
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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Page 390 note 1

Page 390 note 2 The total represents the sum of all African countries named in official Soviet foreign trade statistics. In this table are shown only the countries whose trade turnover with the Soviet Union in 1968 exceeded I million roubles. Supplies of equipment for complete enterprises are included in export figures.

Page 392 note 1 Occasional copper imports from Zambia are excluded.

Page 395 note 1 (Moscow, 1969), pp. 34–39; and Institute of African Studies, Economic Co-operation of the Soviet Union with African Countries (Moscow, 1968), pp. 27 and 39–55.Google Scholar

Page 398 note 1 Four large administrative regions have been adopted in Guinea: Lower, Middle, Upper, and Southern Guinea.

Page 398 note 2 (Moscow, 1968), pp. 110–11.

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Page 400 note 2 Formally, the Sudan was an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, but in practice it was ruled on the lines of a British colony till 1956.

Page 401 note 1 Petrushev, A., ‘Economic Co-operation of the U.S.S.R. with Foreign Countries’, in Foreign Trade (Moscow), 5, 1969, pp. 20–1.Google Scholar

Page 402 note 1 Ibid.

Page 404 note 1 Petrushev, loc. cit.

Page 404 note 2 Ethiopian Trade Journal (Addis Ababa), 07 1967Google Scholar; Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa), 9 04 1967.Google Scholar