Overview
This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It looks at how the Soviet Union’s antiracist campaigns attracted interest from Black radicals, activists, and intellectuals and how many of these individuals sought to experience the Soviet Union firsthand because of the Soviet claims to racial egalitarianism and Moscow’s stated support for the movements for racial justice and anticolonialism. Maxim Matusevich places special emphasis on the promises and unresolved dilemmas of Soviet internationalism and official antiracism, as well as their complicated legacy in the post-Soviet period. Black Encounters with the Soviet Union makes extensive use of individual case studies, including luminaries like Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and W.E.B. Du Bois, to identify the points of contact and the inherent tensions between ideological aspirations and the pragmatic demands of foreign policy. Furthermore, the book brings attention to the impact of Soviet antiracism on the Soviet society, where it functioned both as a vehicle of ideological conditioning and, somewhat counterintuitively, of cultural and political subversion.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Maxim Matusevich (Seton Hall University, USA) ,
Eugene M Avrutin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA) ,
Stephen M Norris (Miami University (Oh) USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781350267893
ISBN 10: 1350267899
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Maxim Matusevich is Professor of Global History at Seton Hall University, USA where he directs the Russian and East European Studies Program. He has published extensively on the history of the Cold War in Africa and the historical connections between Africa and the Soviet Union. He is the author of No Easy Row for a Russian Hoe: Ideology and Pragmatism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960-1991 (2003) and editor of Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters (2007). Matusevich has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarly awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright Grant, a Research Fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, an IREX Grant, two Kennan Institute Research Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, and a Jordan Center Fellowship.
