Russian and Soviet Relations with Africa

♦ [Review of] Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, The hidden thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era (Johannesburg, Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2013). Review of African Political Economy vol.41, no.139, 2014, pages 153-156. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 60 kb.

♦ Soviet and Russian research on Ethiopia and eastern Africa: a second look in the context of the area studies crisis. In: Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: three centuries of encounters, edited by Maxim Matusevich (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2007), pages 133-151. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 1.5 Mb.

♦ ‘Catalyst, stake, pretext, symbol, mask’: on the history of relations between the Comintern, the Soviet Union and southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.31, no.4, December 2005, pages 883-893. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 99 Kb.
A review article covering four books on the Comintern and Africa, as well as the history of African studies in Russia and the Soviet Union: Apollon Davidson et al. (eds.) South Africa and the Communist International: a documentary history (2003); Valentin Gorodnov et al. (eds.) Коминтерн и Африка: документы (2003); Davidson, Становление отечественное африканистики, 1920-1960 (2003); and Африканистика ХХ века (2002).

♦ Ethiopian resistance. Journal of African History, vol.34, no.1, 1993, pages 154-155. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 260 Kb.
Short review of G. V. Tsypkin's Эфиопия в анти-колониальных войнах (Moscow, 1988).

♦ As José Manuel. Soviet embassy in Pretoria. EDICESA News [Harare] vol.3 no.7, September 1990, page 12. Not yet available.
Short review of Philip Nel's Soviet embassy in Pretoria? (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1990).

♦ As José Manuel das Fontes. Soviet new realism marginalizing Africa. The Guardian [New York], 27 June 1990, page 14. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 300 Kb.

♦ As José Manuel das Fontes. Soviet bear-shrug for Africa: a few ties are kept as Moscow slouches towards new realism. Africa South [Harare], May-June 1990, p.30-31. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 590 Kb.

♦ East Africa through Soviet eyes. Journal of African History, vol.31, no.2, 1990, pages 328-329. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 270 Kb.
Short review of books on Kenya by Irina Filatova and on Uganda by Aleksandr Balezin.

♦ With Gary Littlejohn. Endre Sik e o desenvolvimento dos estudos africanos na URSS: uma agenda de estudos a partir de 1929. Cadernos de História, no.6, November 1987, pages 65-102. Not yet available.

♦ With Gary Littlejohn. Endre Sik and the development of African studies in the USSR: a study agenda from 1929. History in Africa, vol. 10, 1983, pages 79-108. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 730 Kb

♦ Introduction. In: A Soviet view of Africa: an annotated bibliography on Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti (Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1980), pages xi-xix. Not yet available.

♦ P. N. Krasnov's journey to Ethiopia: a note. Africa: Rivista Trimestrale, vol.30, no.4, December 1975, pages 600-601. Click here to view or download the PDF file, 235 Kb.