Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 PDF
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Cold War Liberation The New Cold War History Odd Arne Westad, editor This series focuses on new interpretations of the Cold War era made possible by the opening of Soviet, East European, Chinese, and other archives. Books in the series based on multilingual and multiarchival research incorporate interdisciplinary insights and new conceptual frameworks that place historical scholarship in a broad, international context. A complete list of books published in The New Cold War History is available at www.uncpress.org. Cold War Liberation The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 • Natalia Telepneva the University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill © 2021 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Garamond Premier Pro by PageMajik Manufactured in the United States of America The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Telepneva, Natalia, author. Title: Cold War liberation : the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa, 1961-1975 / Natalia Telepneva. Other titles: New Cold War history. Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021] | Series: The new Cold War history | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2021052598 | isbn 9781469665856 (cloth) | isbn 9781469665863 (paperback) | isbn 9781469665870 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Revolutionaries--Angola. | Revolutionaries--Mozambique. | Revolutionaries--Guinea-Bissau. | Soviet Union--Relations--Angola. | Angola--Relations--Soviet Union. | Soviet Union--Relations--Mozambique. | Mozambique--Relations--Soviet Union. | Soviet Union--Relations--Guinea-Bissau. | Guinea-Bissau--Relations--Soviet Union. | Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975. | Mozambique--History--1891-1975. | Guinea-Bissau--History--Revolution, 1963-1974. | Portugal--Colonies--Africa. Classification: lcc dt1402 .t45 2021 | ddc 967.3/03--dc23/eng/20220107 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021052598 Cover illustration: Viktor Kobelev, “At Luanda Airport. Electrician Juan Garcio.” Used by permission of Sputnik News. To the loving memory of my grandfather, Moisei Slutskii (1920–2005) • This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pilot uses cutting-edge publishing technology to produce open access digital editions of high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs from leading university presses. Free digital editions can be downloaded from: Books at JSTOR, EBSCO, Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, OAPEN, Project MUSE, and many other open repositories. While the digital edition is free to download, read, and share, the book is under copyright and covered by the following Creative Commons License: BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consult www.creativecommons.org if you have questions about your rights to reuse the material in this book. When you cite the book, please include the following URL for its Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469665887_Telepneva We are eager to learn more about how you discovered this title and how you are using it. We hope you will spend a few minutes answering a couple of questions at this url: https://www.longleafservices.org/shmp-survey/ More information about the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot can be found at https://www.longleafservices.org. Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations in the Text xvii A Note on Transliteration xxi Introduction 1 Chapter One Mediators of Liberation: Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Bureaucratic Elite, and the Cold War in Africa 12 Chapter Two Revolutionaries: The Portuguese Empire and the Rise of African Nationalism 29 Chapter Three Cataclysm: The Angolan Uprising and Its Aftermath, 1961 56 Chapter Four Diplomacy of Liberation: Exile Politics, International Alliances, and Maoism in Africa, 1961–1964 73 Chapter Five From the Barrel of a Gun: Weapons, Training, and Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare, 1964–1970 101 Chapter Six Disappointments: The Portuguese Offensives and Détente, 1970–1974 138 Chapter Seven Triumph to Tragedy: Revolution in Portugal and the Angolan Civil War, 1974–1975 167 Conclusion 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 241
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