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- Title
Culture Clash in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and African Students’ Urbanity in the Soviet Union, 1960–1965.
- Authors
Guillory, Sean
- Abstract
The encounters between Soviet citizens and African students studying in the Soviet Union in the sixties inevitably generated problems of acclimation, social and political conflict, and racial strife. The article illuminates the ways the cultural clash affirmed Russians’ and Africans’ sense of cultural superiority. The African presence in Russia confirmed Soviet altruism in rearing Africans into cultured and scientifically endowed people. Similarly, African encounters with Soviet daily life reaffirmed their identity as culturally superior to Russians by emphasizing aspects of the individual that directly conflicted with Soviet notions of collectivism. The conflict over culturedness had direct ramifications on the Cold War as it strengthened Africans’ pragmatic stance toward Soviet patronage and their reluctance to embrace Soviet ideology and values.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; FOREIGN students; AFRICANS; SOCIAL conflict; IDEOLOGICAL conflict; CULTURE conflict; COMMUNISM &; international relations; HISTORY of the Soviet Union, 1953-1985
- Publication
Diplomatic History, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0145-2096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/dh/dhu007