Visions of Freedom

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the super powers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed and...

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Autore principale: Gleijeses, Piero
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: University of North Carolina Press.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469609690_gleijeses
Sommario:
  • The Cuban drumbeat
  • Neto, Castro, and Carter : a new beginning?
  • The Cubans in Angola
  • Strained relations : Cuba and Angola
  • The fronts harden : the United States and Cuba, 1978-1980
  • Carter and Southern Africa : a balance sheet
  • Enter Reagan
  • The wonders of linkage
  • Angolan travails
  • The failure of Lusaka
  • The United States, South Africa, and Savimbi
  • The view from Cuba, 1984-1986
  • Havana and Moscow : conflicting strategies
  • Negotiations in the offing?
  • Cuito Cuanavale
  • Maniobra XXXI aniversario
  • Chester Crocker meets Jorge Risquet : talks about talks
  • The negotiations
  • The New York agreements
  • Visions of freedom.