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Saving Ghana’s revolution : the demise of Kwame Nkrumah and the evolution of Soviet Policy in Africa 1966-1972
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Telepneva, Natalia (2018) Saving Ghana’s revolution : the demise of Kwame Nkrumah and the evolution of Soviet Policy in Africa 1966-1972. Journal of Cold War Studies, 20 (4). pp. 4-25. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00838 ISSN 1520-3972.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00838
Abstract
On 24 February 1966, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a coup d’etat. The coup rekindled a debate at various levels of the Warsaw Pact about the prospects of socialism in Africa and about which policies were desired. Soviet officials concluded they would have to pay more attention to establishing relationships with the military and security apparatus of African countries. This paper explores how Nkrumah’s loyalists in exile and their sympathizers in Ghana attempted to launch a counter-coup in 1968 and the role of the Warsaw Pact countries—notably the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia—in those events. It provides an insight into “Operation ALEX”–a botched attempt by the Czechoslovakian intelligence service to support Nkrumah loyalists in their attempts to launch a left-wing counter-coup in Ghana. This paper re-examines the late 1960s as an important period of militarization of the Cold War in Africa and highlights the importance of local African agency in this process.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Cold War Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | MIT Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1520-3972 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 4-25 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1162/jcws_a_00838 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 April 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 January 2019 | ||||||||
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