Playing the Russian Game’

Black Radicalism, the Press, and Colonial Office Attempts to Control Anti-Colonialism in the Early Cold War, 1946–50

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11944522
AutoresLeslie James (New York Times, autor de correspondencia), Leslie E James
Año2015
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas509-534
Fecha de publicación2015-01-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03086534.2014.974892
OpenAlexW2054126668
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas63

This article scrutinises attempts by the British Foreign and Colonial Office to control information in its colonies between 1946 and 1950. Several factors combined to alter the ground on which colonial officials operated in this period: an emerging ‘Cold War’ between Britain and its wartime Soviet ally, international debates about creating an enforceable catalogue of ‘human rights' and a heightened emphasis on public relations within British colonies as a strategy for imperial governance. These factors converged in the response of colonial officials to the writing of one of the most notorious anti-colonial activists in Britain at the time, George Padmore. By analysing British Colonial Office reports of Soviet propaganda in their colonies, the article suggests new analysis about some of the ways in which the rhetoric of the Cold War impacted on Britain's approach to empire after the Second World War

Ancient history · Archaeology · Cold war · Colonialism · Economic history · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society