Africa In Soviet Studies: Annual 1969
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
At the height of the Cold War, when the African continent was a critical theatre of ideological contest, Soviet scholars trained their analytical gaze southward, producing some of the most rigorous and revealing academic work of the era. Africa in Soviet Studies: Annual 1969, published under the authority of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences' Africa Institute, chronicles the scholarly output of leading Soviet Africanists, presenting a collection of research papers that address the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of African nations during a period of sweeping post-colonial transformation. The volume details topics ranging from national liberation movements and socialist development models to ethnographic studies and historical analysis, offering an indispensable window into how the Soviet academic establishment understood and engaged with an increasingly pivotal part of the world. Beyond its immediate subject matter, this annual publication holds profound significance as a primary historical document, illustrating the ideological frameworks and geopolitical priorities that shaped Soviet foreign policy and intellectual life during the late 1960s. Published by the prestigious Nauka Publishing House through its Central Department of Oriental Literature in Moscow, the work reflects a distinctly materialist and structuralist methodology that stands in sharp contrast to Western Africanist scholarship of the same period. For historians of the Cold War, students of African history, or scholars of Soviet intellectual culture, this volume raises a compelling and still-relevant question: what does it mean to study another continent entirely through the lens of one's own political imperatives?
Author: U.S.S.R. Academy Of Sciences, Africa Institute
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Nauka Publishing House, Central Department of Oriental Literature
Genre: African history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
At the height of the Cold War, when the African continent was a critical theatre of ideological contest, Soviet scholars trained their analytical gaze southward, producing some of the most rigorous and revealing academic work of the era. Africa in Soviet Studies: Annual 1969, published under the authority of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences' Africa Institute, chronicles the scholarly output of leading Soviet Africanists, presenting a collection of research papers that address the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of African nations during a period of sweeping post-colonial transformation. The volume details topics ranging from national liberation movements and socialist development models to ethnographic studies and historical analysis, offering an indispensable window into how the Soviet academic establishment understood and engaged with an increasingly pivotal part of the world. Beyond its immediate subject matter, this annual publication holds profound significance as a primary historical document, illustrating the ideological frameworks and geopolitical priorities that shaped Soviet foreign policy and intellectual life during the late 1960s. Published by the prestigious Nauka Publishing House through its Central Department of Oriental Literature in Moscow, the work reflects a distinctly materialist and structuralist methodology that stands in sharp contrast to Western Africanist scholarship of the same period. For historians of the Cold War, students of African history, or scholars of Soviet intellectual culture, this volume raises a compelling and still-relevant question: what does it mean to study another continent entirely through the lens of one's own political imperatives?