Alessandro Iandolo is Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet History at University College London.
Description
Introduction 1. A Farewell to Arms: De-Stalinization, the Soviet Economy, and the Global Cold War 2. Brave New World: The Soviet Union and the Making of the Third World 3. First Contact 4. The Heart of the Matter 5. Things Fall Apart 6. The End of the Affair Conclusion
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)