Cold war liberation the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa, 1961-1975 / Natalia Telepneva

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Chapter One. Mediators of Liberation: Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Bureaucratic Elite, and the Cold War in Africa -- Chapter Two. Revolutionaries: The Portuguese Empire and the Rise of African Nationalism -- Chapter Three. Cataclysm: The Angolan Uprising and Its Aftermath, 1961 -- Chapter Four. Diplomacy of Liberation: Exile Politics, International Alliances, and Maoism in Africa, 1961–1964 -- Chapter Five. From the Barrel of a Gun: Weapons, Training, and Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare, 1964–1970 -- Chapter Six. Disappointments: The Portuguese Offensives and Détente, 1970–1974 -- Chapter Seven. Triumph to Tragedy: Revolution in Portugal and the Angolan Civil War, 1974–1975 -- Conclusion

"Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies-Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau-and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, Natalia Telepneva bridges the gap between the narratives of individual anticolonial movements and those of superpower rivalry in sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher