Experiencing' Southern Africa in the twenty-first century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3689847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Coker (0000-0002-0280-813X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-292 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2620831 |
| OpenAlex | W2297059103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The world's experience of Southern Africa used to be one of an arena - an arena of endemic conflict. The region had everything: from a compelling political tragedy in South Africa to an endless series of conflicts in Mozambique and Angola. For those whose job it was to monitor the Third World condition, Southern Africa made a particularly fitting postscript to the colonial era. For the Soviet Union, Southern Africa presented a more positive picture: a chance to create a new political dispensation, a Marxist-Leninist order after fifteen years of struggle against colonial rule. The liberation wars themselves produced their own Marxist variant, the Marxist-Leninist Third World vanguard party, whose credentials were vindicated by a generation of Soviet Africanists who had hoped to discover authentic socialism in the killing fields of Southern Africa
Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Marxist philosophy · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Soviet union · Third world · Tragedy (event · Vanguard · African history and culture studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2012 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |