LEADER 03060cam a2200385 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20240131143655.0 008 140201s2013 sa a b 001 0 eng d 010 2013495213 020 9781868424993 (pbk.) 020 |z9781868425006 (ebook) 040 Z@L |beng |erda |cZ@L |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 lccopycat 050 00 DT1805.S65 |bF55 2013 082 04 327.47068 |223 100 1 Filatova, I. I. |q(Irina Ivanovna) |d1947- 245 14 The hidden thread : |bRussia and South Africa in the Soviet era / |cIrina Filatova and Apollon Davidson. 260 Johannesburg : |bJonathan Ball Publishers, |c2013. 300 xii, 553 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color) ; |c23 cm 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-545) and index (p. 546-553). 505 0 Introduction : Why South Africa--and Russia? -- Three Centuries : Russia and South Africa Before the Soviet Era -- Enter the Bolsheviks -- New Politics and New Business Contacts -- In the Communist International -- Indoctrination or Scholarship? : Teaching and Studying South Africa at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers -- The 'New Jerusalem' : The USSR's Friends and Fellow Travellers -- Together against Hitler -- The Red Peril : the USSR in South Africa's Cold War Ideology and Policy -- Against Colonialism and Apartheid : South Africa in Soviet Theory and Policy in the Cold War Era -- The Secret War -- The Regular War -- The ANC, the SACP and the USSR -- Comrades in Arms : Soviet Military Aid to the ANC -- 'Moscow Gold', Soviet Universities and Much Else -- The Promised Land -- Perestroika : Winds of Change in the North -- Pretoriastroika : Winds of Change in the South -- Volte Face : Establishing Diplomatic Relations -- Just Another Country? -- Postscript : The USSR and the 'South African Miracle'. 520 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. 610 20 African National Congress |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 South Africa |xRelations |zSoviet Union. 651 0 Soviet Union |xRelations |zSouth Africa. 700 1 Davidson, A. B. |q(Apollon Borisovich) |d1929- 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6327_470680000000000_FIL |70 |8GEN |9163514OSA |bOSA |d2024-01-18 |eOSA |l0 |o327.47068 FIL |r2024-01-18 |w2024-01-18 |yBK |cOSA Repository 920 01 1e219gYG 992 01 327_470680000000000_FIL |bWXS_VSZTRZZZZZZZZZZ_KHE 966 |cIn the Research Room