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Times have changed since the 1975–79 period of Soviet intervention in Africa. The 1980s have been a period of Soviet consolidation and adjustment to the difficulties of the African situation. In Ethiopia and Angola the Soviets are committed to communist state building and protection of the Marxist regimes. Elsewhere involvement has been very cautious. The Soviets gain little from their African allies, and their commitments to Africa are difficult and costly to fulfill and often unproductive.
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© 1989 Edward A. Kolodziej and Roger E. Kanet
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Singleton, F.S. (1989). The Soviet Union, The Horn, and Tropical Africa. In: Kolodziej, E.A., Kanet, R.E. (eds) The Limits of Soviet Power in the Developing World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10146-7_13
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