----- Original Message ----- From: Otis Cunningham <ocunningham at igc.org> To: <brc-announce at lists.tao.ca> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:06 AM Subject: [BRC-ANN] The ANC: A View from Moscow
> The African Communist (Journal of the SACP)
>
> Issue 152 [Third Quarter 1999]
>
> Book Review
>
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> "ANC: A View from Moscow"
> by Vladimir Shubin
> Mayibuye Books, 1999
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>
> The South African Struggle Viewed from Moscow
>
> By Blade Nzimande
>
> Over many years Vladimir Shubin was the key liaison between
> the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
> Union and the South African liberation movement. This book
> is one of the most resourceful and informative to have been
> written in the recent period on the history of the ANC and
> the national liberation struggle. It is a very detailed (and
> also extremely frank) account of what was, perhaps, the most
> challenging and complex period for the movement - the years
> of exile, underground and armed struggle.
>
> If any anti-communists are looking for a book full of KGB
> conspiracies, machinations and manipulations they will be
> disappointed. Here is a frank, and at times self-critical,
> but always supportive, account of the relationship between
> the Soviet Union and the ANC between 1960 and 1991. The book
> creatively weaves together the history of this relationship
> with an account of the national liberation struggle itself,
> and the evolution and maturing of the ANC in the years of
> illegality, repression and intensifying national liberation
> struggle:
>
> http://www.sacp.org.za/ac/ac152.html#Book
>
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