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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 2–10.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Elizabeth Banks; Robyn d'Avignon; Asif Siddiqi Abstract This special themed section examines the multilayered engagements between Africa and the Soviet Union as a central, if overlooked, global encounter of the mid-twentieth century. We call this worldview and the entanglements it generated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Elizabeth Banks Abstract This article examines negotiations on aid, scholarship provision, and a hoped-for visit by former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, that took place between the Committee for Soviet Women (KSZh) and the Organization for Mozambican Women (OMM) as a lens into Soviet-African...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 11–26.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Andrew Ivaska Abstract This article explores the place of the USSR in the imagination, circuitry, and everyday practice of the early Mozambican nationalist movement configuring itself in exile in Dar es Salaam. Soviet plans, like those of the US, for engaging African liberation movements were...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Steffi Marung Abstract In this article the Soviet-African Modern is presented through an intellectual history of exchanges in a triangular geography, outspreading from Moscow to Paris to Port of Spain and Accra. In this geography, postcolonial conditions in Eastern Europe and Africa became...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 40–56.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Ali F. İğmen This article analyzes the lives of four stage personalities whose lives, career paths, and achievements connect us to the cultural makeup of Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the second half of the twentieth century. The stories of Sabira Kumushalieva, Saira Kiyizbaeva, Baken Kydykeeva...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 310–322.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Christopher M. Murphy This study examines five children’s books produced in Soviet Central Asia and the Crimea between 1926 and 1932. While stemming from pre-Soviet intellectual movements among Muslims in the Russian Empire, these books represent a new kind of product that was created for children...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 108–111.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Deepa Ollapally; G. Anandalingam Santosh Mehrotra, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer , (Cambridge University Press, 1990) Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. mer Soviet Union in its “imperialistic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Sanjib Baruah Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 1(1989)
Defending a Discredited Vision:
The CPM and the Soviet Reforms*
Sanjib Baruah
Recent developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern political force in the political process...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 August 2013
... von Stalin bis Breznev (Soviet Union and the Third World: USSR, State Socialism, and Anticolonialisms in the Cold War) . Stuttgart : F. Steiner , 2006 . David-Fox Michael . “ The Implications of Transnationalism .” Kritika 12 ( 2011 ): 885 – 904 . Engerman David C. Know...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 214–226.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of national self-interest. This article places Soviet aid to Turkey in the context of Moscow’s other anti-imperialist commitments. Soviet-Turkish partnership was the first chapter of the decolonialization in which the USSR played such a prominent role. Indeed, through Turkey the Soviet leadership worked out...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 227–238.
Published: 01 August 2013
...David C. Engerman Engerman’s essay examines Soviet encounters with India in the 1950s and 1960s, tracing the effects of such encounters on both nations. Using Soviet and Indian published as well as archival material, it pays special attention to the effects on Soviet and Indian economic ideas...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 239–256.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., the university was a symbol around which debates over imperialism, modernity, and development emerged. Instead of simply seeing the university through judgments of “success” or “failure,” this essay offers insight into Soviet self-presentation and its attempt to offer the Third World an alternative path...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 41–55.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Asif Siddiqi Abstract This article explores the biography of a network of Soviet telescopic cameras stationed across the African Sahel during the Cold War. Through joint Soviet-African cooperative programs, scientists used these advanced cameras in Egypt, Somalia, Mali, the Sudan, and Chad...
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in Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. The Soviet AFU-75 camera that was stationed in many African countries. Credit: Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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in Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. Soviet astronomer K. M. Antonovich in Bamako, Mali in 1974. Note the hospital in the background. Credit: Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 591–603.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Katerina Clark’s observations on the Soviet socialist-realist novel, and building on the adaptation’s intertextual references to older Javanese and Sanskrit epic traditions, Lienau’s essay argues that Pramoedya’s work posits the generic superiority of the Indonesian-Malay novel to the linguistic caste...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Katerina Clark In the aftermath of the Great War the Ottoman and imperial Russian empires came to an end, and new geopolitical formations, what became the Soviet Union and Republican Turkey, emerged. In both countries a search ensued for new cultural identity and new cultural forms. At the same...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 142–153.
Published: 01 May 2008
... mainly the Caucasus was in charge of producing revolutionary literature or dispatching revolutionary agents to the south in order to save the constitution from being slaughtered by Qajar despotism. In a corresponding fashion, in Soviet historiography the study of the reformist movement of the early...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 630–636.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jeff Sahadeo Sahadeo’s article examines Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire from the viewpoint of a historian of Russia’s southern borderlands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Go offers a pathway for scholars of other expansionist regimes, including the tsarist state and the Soviet Union, to break down...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 442–455.
Published: 01 December 2023
... on opposite sides of several conflicts: the bitter struggle between Nationalists (KMT) and Communists (CCP), the formation of opposing states on the mainland and Taiwan, and the broader US-Soviet rivalry. The first section of this article shows how Muslims from China catalyzed multiple inter-Asian linkages...
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