Name: Arrested Development. The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
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Author: Alessandro Iandolo

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Arrested Development. The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Author

Alessandro Iandolo

Year

2025

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.1 cm

ISBN13

9781501785054

Arrested Development. The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

Alessandro Iandolo (Author) · Cornell University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Arrested Development. The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968"

Winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies In Arrested Development, Alessandro Iandolo examines the USSR's role in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as an aid donor, trade partner, and political model for newly independent Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. With a strong economy in the 1950s, the USSR expanded its global outreach, supporting economic development in post-colonial Africa and Asia. Many nations saw the Soviet model as a path to political and economic independence. Drawing on extensive Russian and West African archival research, Iandolo explores Soviet ideas, sponsored projects, and their lasting impact. Soviet specialists worked alongside West African colleagues to design ambitious development plans, build infrastructure, establish collective farms, survey mineral resources, and manage banking and trade. These collaborations—and the tensions they created—shed light on how Soviet and West African visions of development intersected. Arrested Development positions the USSR as a key player in twentieth-century economic history, reshaping global approaches to modernization.