A distant front in the Cold War
Subtitle: the USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964
By: Sergey Mazov
Contributors: Mazov, S. V. (Sergeĭ Vasilʹevich)
Series: Cold War International History Project series
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Stanford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804760591
Notes: "Portions of this book were originally published as Politika SSSR v Zapadnoĭ Afrike, 1956-1964 : neizvestnye stranitsy istorii kholodnoĭ voĭny (Moscow : Nauka, 2008); translated by the author"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building bridges, 1956-1959; title: From Stalinist dualism to Khrushchevian flexibility; title: Did Khrushchev have a special "African strategy"?; title: The Liberian debut of Soviet diplomacy; title: Establishing relations with Ghana; title: The beginning of the "Guinean experiment" and the superpowers' responses; title: Achievements and failures in the "year of Africa," 1960; title: The eruption of the Congo crisis : the first open challenge; title: The price of the "Guinean experiment" for the Soviet Union; title: Rapprochement with Ghana; title: The disintegration of the Mali Federation and the appearance of a new ally; title: Seeking more pragmatic approaches, 1961-1962; title: The final acts of the Congolese tragedy; title: The Guinean turn to the West; title: Ghana, the new "leading light of African freedom"; title: Debates over African socialism; title: and Soviet-Malian relations; title: The struggle for the soul of the West African elite, 1963-1964; title: The Sino-Soviet split and West Africa; title: To train "people with progressive views, sincere friends of the Soviet Union"; title: Political indoctrination on the spot; title: Regimes destined to fall.