Tag: Cold War proxy wars

  • The Long Ledger: Part 2

    The Shell Game Cold War Geopolitics and the Redistribution of Colonial Wealth, 1945–1991 The Cold War is usually taught as a clash of ideologies, and the ideologies were real. Liberal democracy and Soviet communism were genuinely incompatible visions of how human society should be organized, and both superpowers believed, at least partly, in what they…

  • Cuba’s Quiet Revolution: Angola

    How a Cuban Generation and Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Changed the Course of Apartheid Fifty years later we need to reevaluate the broader Cuban geo-political power from 1970-1990. When we teach about the end of apartheid in South Africa, we typically focus on the internal resistance movement, international sanctions, and the moral leadership of figures…