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Title: | The Demise of the World Revolutionary Process: Soviet-Angolan Relations under Gorbachev |
Author: | McFaul, Michael |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 165-189 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Angola Soviet Union |
Subjects: | foreign policy Politics and Government international relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636644 |
Abstract: | The 'world revolutionary process' predicted by Marx, initiated by Lenin, and promoted for seventy years by the Soviet Union has come to an abrupt halt. This paper assesses the impact of this worldwide phenomenon on southern Africa by analysing one of its dimensions: Soviet relations with Angola. The paper addresses two central questions. To what extent have Soviet conceptual and organizational changes in foreign policy affected Soviet policy towards Angola? How has this new Soviet policy influenced developments in Angola and southern Africa more generally? The analysis is divided into four sections. The first section outlines recent 'restructuring' within and between those institutions which formulate and execute Soviet foreign policy towards Angola. The second section describes and explains the conceptual and concrete changes in Soviet foreign policy regarding States of socialist orientation which affect Angola. The third section discusses another revised concept in Soviet foreign policy - 'new thinking' about regional security - and its impact on Soviet-Angolan relations. The final section concludes with an assessment of the implications of these changes for Angola, southern Africa and the Third World in general. Notes, ref. |