Soviet Union's position on the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

Author

the Department of History - Institute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries - University of Aswan

Abstract

 The Soviet Union was interested in spreading its communist ideas in Zanzibar beginning in 1959, by communicating with Zanzibarese students, in England through the British Communist Party, and providing many educational grants to zanzibaris to the communist country, and at the end of the Zanzibar revolution in 1964, the Soviet Union was one of the first countries to recognize the revolution, and provided many military aid, and launched many rumors of communist revolution. But it was a purely African revolution carried out by Africans themselves against the Arab minority without the participation of any outside forces.

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