The First Russian Thesis on the Anglo-Boer War in the Context of the Marxist Study of South African History in the 1930s

In the 1920s — 1930s, the late modern period of the southern African history was viewed through the prism of contemporary political and ideological issues and based, among other things, on the Marxist-Leninist theory of imperialism. A. F. Ostaltseva’s thesis “The Anglo-Boer War and its Impact on England’s Foreign Policy” (1940) was the first Marxist study of the South African armed conflict of 1899—1902 in the world historiography. Her work demonstrates that, in the Soviet Union, the Anglo-Boer War was studied primarily to clarify the causes and preconditions of the First World War. Ostaltseva’s thesis was not published, despite a recommendation from the Academic Board of the Institute of History, Soviet Academy of Sciences, and has not been integrated into the historiography. Apparently, it is because in the second half of the 1940s, the elucidation of the origins of the First World War lost its relevance, and researchers turned to investigating the causes and circumstances of the latest global armed conflict

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