From paternalism to ethnocentrism: Images of Africa in Gorbachev's Russia

Race and Class

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 79-89

  Quist Adade, Charles ^a  

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Author keywords

Communism; Glasnost; Journalism; Media; Perestroika; Soviet Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544369783     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030639680504600406     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. N. Yermoshkin, Spiritual Colonialism (Prague, 1984).
2. European Race Bulletin (No. 49, October 2004), p. 20.
3. 'Pioneers' were the Soviet equivalent of boy scouts and girl guides.
4. B. Asoyan, 'Afrika uzh tak daleko', Literanturnaya Gazeta (No. 14, 7 November 1987).
5. A. B. Davidson, D. Olderogge and S. Solodonikov, The USSR and Africa (1966), pp. 46-70.
6. Charles Quist-Adade, In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House: Africa's media image from communism to post-communism (Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 2001).
7. G. Fokeev, 'Afrika v chem. Nah natsional'nyi interes?', Asiya i Afrika cegodnya (No. 5, 1991), p. 34.
8. Davidson, Olderogge and Solodonikov, op. cit., p. 14.
9. Some of the ex-Soviet publications removed this slogan after the demise of communism.
10. See Osnovi Marksistsko-Leninskoi Filosofi (Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1985).
11. Y. Popov, 'New political thinking in the Third World', Asiya i Afrika Cegodnya (No. 4, 1990), p. 36.
12. During his six years in office, Gorbachev mentioned Africa no more than three times in his public speeches and even these were references made in the context of a general discussion about the Third World.
13. N. Travkin, Literator (1 December 1990), p. 1.
14. Pravda (29 December 1987), p. 5.
15. Popov, op. cit.
16. The Russian pronunciation of 'negro' is 'niegr', which sounds somewhere between "negro' and 'nigger'.
17. A. A. Gromyko, Aktualnie Problemi Otnoshenii s Strannami Afriki (Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1985).
18. Pravda (12 October 1991), p. 5.
19. B. C. Cohen, The Press and Foreign Policy (London, Princeton University Press, 1963).
20. Asoyan, op. cit.
21. L. Zevin and V. Telerman, 'Razvivayushie Stranni v Nashei Ekonomicheskoi Strategii', Svobodnaya Mysl (No. 18, 1991), pp. 85-93.
22. I b i d.
23. By the beginning of 1992, there were under 8,000 African students, less than 10 per cent of the entire foreign student population, in various parts of the former Soviet Union. It is estimated that, in 1993, this number was more than halved as Third World scholarships were cut.
24. B. Asoyan, 'Sgushennoi krasok' Komsomoslkaya Pravda (No. 4, 7 August 1989), p. 3.
25. Asoyan, 'Afrika uzh tak daleko', op. cit.
26. M. S. Gorbachev, Perestroika i Novoe Myshlenie dlya Nashei Straniy i Vsego Mira (Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1988).