The White Sun of Angola
As Former USSR Deputy Foreign Minister with responsibility for Africa, Ambassador Anatoly Adamishin’s memoirs offer unique insights into Soviet policy during Gorbachev’s perestroika. Its principal focus is Soviet involvement in the long-running conflict in Southern Africa: the Angolan theater. This account highlights the role of personal diplomacy and the relative autonomy of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs vs the Party. This is a detailed account of the USSR’s overall contribution to the fraught negotiations between South Africa, Cuba, and Angola; relations with the ANC; the resolution of conflict in southern Africa and Namibia’s independence.
Cold War International History Project
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