The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949–1979 by Matthew Galway

Abstract

Telepneva carefully leads the reader through a dizzying array of acronyms and actors in this multi-generational struggle, while never losing sight of her central thesis: the vital part played by the Soviet bureaucracy in the armed postcolonial liberation struggle and the African revolutionaries who used diplomacy to initiate and increase Soviet support for their cause. This is important reading for those interested in the agency of African liberation leaders and the divide between existing narratives of individual anti-colonial movements and those of superpower competition in sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War.