Unsung Heroes
The Soviet Military and the Liberation of Southern Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12696232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Shubin (0000-0002-9944-5135, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-262 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682740701284157 |
| OpenAlex | W2047106561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
The history of military co-operation between the USSR and the liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa has still to be written. The same applies to co-operation with Moscow in the post-independence period. So far the attempts to do so have been unsuccessful, not only due to the lack of accessible documents, but also due to an uncritical attitude to the available materials. This paper attempts to present a ‘factual version of history’. It addresses in particular the issues of training the African combatants in the USSR, and the activities of the Soviet teams attached to the ANC, SWAPO and ZAPU as well as to the armed forces of the independent African countries. While most of the Russian archives are still ‘sealed off’, the author has used oral history sources and memoirs as an invaluable means of painting a picture of the Soviet involvement from the early 1960s to 1991
Aesthetics · Art · Independence (probability theory · Memoir · Period (music · Political science · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · South African History and Culture
Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979
Intervention, ideology, strategic imperatives
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
Colonial Wars, Colonial Alliances
From Luanda and Maputo to Berlin
Angola–Zimbabwe Relations
From “Authentic” to Actual Marxist Educational Theory
Emerging Powers and Africa
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |