The hidden thread
Subtitle: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era
By: Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson
Contributors: Davidson, A. B. (Apollon Borisovich)
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9781868424993; 9781868425006
Subjects: Relations; History; African National Congress
Other titles: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era
Description: The Hidden thread is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length. The story is told with insight and depth by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, who have had a decades long association researching and writing on Russian and South African politics and history. This insightful work follows the often surprising twists and turns of the history of South Africa's relationship with Russia and its people which started in the eighteenth century and is still very much alive today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-545) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Why South Africa; title: and Russia?; title: Three Centuries : Russia and South Africa Before the Soviet Era; title: Enter the Bolsheviks; title: New Politics and New Business Contacts; title: In the Communist International; title: Indoctrination or Scholarship? : Teaching and Studying South Africa at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers; title: The 'New Jerusalem' : The USSR's Friends and Fellow Travellers; title: Together against Hitler; title: The Red Peril : the USSR in South Africa's Cold War Ideology and Policy; title: Against Colonialism and Apartheid : South Africa in Soviet Theory and Policy in the Cold War Era; title: The Secret War; title: The Regular War; title: The ANC, the SACP and the USSR; title: Comrades in Arms : Soviet Military Aid to the ANC; title: 'Moscow Gold', Soviet Universities and Much Else; title: The Promised Land; title: Perestroika : Winds of Change in the North; title: Pretoriastroika : Winds of Change in the South; title: Volte Face : Establishing Diplomatic Relations; title: Just Another Country?; title: Postscript : The USSR and the 'South African Miracle'.