"The Soviet Union acted almost without competition because the West was not ready to provide education to African students on such a scale. The Soviet experience was later copied in China and the ...

Here are some details on how the Soviet Union, and later Russia, developed relations with African countries. The first political communication between Russia and African countries dates back to ...

Hitler's fascist forces had just been defeated in the Second World War. And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during the war. But this event would help fuel anti-Communist sentiments ...

Castro's courtship of the Soviet Union began shortly after the revolution ... whenever and wherever the opportunity arose -- in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East.

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...