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

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Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Iandolo, Alessandro (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: De Gruyter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Economic assistance, Soviet > Ghana.
Economic assistance, Soviet > Guinea.
Economic assistance, Soviet > Mali.
Economic development > Ghana.
Economic development > Guinea.
Economic development > Mali.
Aide économique soviétique > Mali.
Aide économique soviétique > Guinée.
Développement économique > Mali.
Développement économique > Guinée.
Développement économique > Ghāna.
Aide économique soviétique > Ghāna.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
International relations
Economic history
Economic development
Economic assistance, Soviet
USSR, Soviet Union.
Russia.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
General & world history.
Development economics & emerging economies.
Industry.
Mali > Economic conditions > 1959-
Guinea > Economic conditions > 1958-1984.
Ghana > Economic conditions > 1957-1979.
Mali > Relations > Soviet Union.
Mali > Conditions économiques > 1959-
Guinée > Conditions économiques > 1958-1984.
Ghāna > Conditions économiques > 1957-1979.
Mali > Relations > URSS.
Soviet Union
Mali
Guinea
Ghana
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Sumario:Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself up to the world and launched a series of programs aimed at supporting the search for economic development in newly independent countries in Africa and Asia. These countries, emerging from decades of colonial domination, looked at the USSR as an example to strengthen political and economic independence. Based on extensive research in Russian and West African archives, Alessandro Iandolo explores the ideas that guided Soviet engagement in West Africa, investigates the projects that the USSR sponsored "on the ground," and analyzes their implementation and legacy. The Soviet specialists who worked in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali collaborated with West African colleagues in drawing ambitious development plans, supervised the construction of new transport infrastructure, organized collective farms and fishing cooperatives, conducted geological surveys and mineral prospecting, set up banking systems, managed international trade, and staffed repairs workshops and ministerial bureaucracies alike. The exchanges and clashes born out of the encounter between Soviet and West African ideas, ambitions, and hopes about development reveal the USSR as a central actor in the history of economic development in the twentieth century.
Notas:Available through De Gruyter.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages) : 6 b&w halftones, 4 maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501764448
1501764446
9781501764455
1501764454

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