Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

Awards:   Winner of Marshall Shulman Book Prize 2023 (United States) Winner of W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize 2023 (United States)
Author:   Alessandro Iandolo
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501785054


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968


Awards

  • Winner of Marshall Shulman Book Prize 2023 (United States)
  • Winner of W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize 2023 (United States)

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Author:   Alessandro Iandolo
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501785054


ISBN 10:   1501785052
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Succinctly written and thoroughly researched, Arrested Development convincingly argues that the Soviet Union had no intention of replicating its model of a fully centrally planned economy in West Africa. * Journal of Contemporary History Book Reviews * Iandolo persuasively demonstrates that the Soviet Union forsook revolutionary Marxism in favor of an approach that shared much with the import-substitution path of development taken by other countries of the Global South during the twentieth century. * H-Net * In intermarrying economic cooperation and political exchanges as the basis for understanding the Cold War, Iandolo's book sets a new stage for future scholars to build on. * H-Net *


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Alessandro Iandolo is Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet History at University College London.

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