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In 1991 the remarkable association that the Soviet Union had with Cuba for thirty years came to an end. This was not primarily due to changes in Cuba or the United States, but to internal events that occurred in the Soviet Union. This had been the lifeline for Castro and Cuba, which Moscow regarded as one of its major political triumphs after World War II. Both parties had frequently pledged political loyalty to each other. To understand how and why this seemingly indestructible association ended, it is necessary to analyze the link between bilateral relations and Soviet internal politics. ; En 1991 llegó a su fin la notable asociación que la Unión Soviética mantuvo con Cuba durante treinta años. Esto no se debió fundamentalmente a los cambios en Cuba o en Estados Unidos, sino a los acontecimientos internos que se produjeron en la Unión Soviética. Esta había sido la cuerda salvavidas de Castro y de Cuba, la cual Moscú consideraba como uno de sus principales triunfos políticos posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ambas partes se habían prometido con frecuencia lealtad política. Para comprender cómo y por qué finalizó esta asociación aparentemente indestructible, es preciso analizar el vínculo entre las relaciones bilaterales y la política interna soviética.

AS PART OF A BROAD ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE POLITICAL MORE PEDAGOGICAL, THE AUTHOR ANALYZES HOW DISNEY FILMS INSCRIBE THE LINK BETWEEN THE RELATED ISSUES OF MEMORY, POLITICS, AND IDENTITY. SPECIFICALLY HE SHOWS HOW THE DISNEY CORPORATION THROUGH ITS TOUCHSTONE FILM COMPANY USED THE DISCOURSE OF INNOCENCE TO POLICE AND TO CONSTRAIN THE POTENTIALLY SUBVERSIVE NOTIONS OF MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE. HE ANALYZES TWO FILMS AS EXEMPLARY TEXTS FOR ENGAGING THE TERRAIN OF POPULAR CULTURE AS IT IS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN THE DISCOURSE OF INNOCENCE AND "FUN" THAT LIES AT THE HEART OF THE DISNEY COMPANY'S WORLD VIEW.

This study argues that there were four sets of reasons for the Soviet withdrawal from Africa. Two of them arose from lessons that were learnt before Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union. First, early in the process of decolonization there was some ambivalence in Moscow about relations with Africa and African socialism as a result of postindependence coups in countries like Ghana and Mali. As the costs of involvement in Africa rose, so did doubts about a Soviet role in Africa. Second, in the 1970s Soviet scholars and policymakers began to reevaluate the economic and political prospects of the poorest LDCs, and their disillusion made them reluctant to offer serious assistance to socialist-oriented States in Africa. The third reason for disengaging from Africa was the 'new political thinking' which recognized the cost to other aspects of Soviet international relations of Soviet policy in the Third World. Finally, 'perestroika', democratization and 'glasnost' in the Soviet Union itself affected policy in Africa. Before examining the four sets of reasons for Moscow's withdrawal from Africa, the author briefly considers how the Soviet Union became involved in the continent in the first place. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden)

Feminist & new Left treatments of the politically charged decade of the 1960s not only fail to historicize the discord between the women's liberation movement & the new Left, but also tend to conceal the movements' common themes. Here, a remapping of the women's movement as an integral component of the 1960s is undertaken, & philosophical themes common to the new Left, the women's movement, & the black freedom movement are discussed. Several books on the 1960s are critiqued, including Todd Gitlin's The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam, 1989) & Tom Hayden's (Reunion: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1988). It is shown that the new Left's dismissal of the women's movement as bourgeois & diversionary resulted primarily from the way that race & class became the exalted categories of 1960s radicalism. Future reconstructions of the decade should focus on locating radicalism within the social & cultural context of the postwar period.