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Notes

¹ A comprehensive review was published in English under the title Russia and South Africa: Historical Memory. Part 2. Aleksandra Arkhangelskaya et al, ‘Sources in the Russian Central Archives’, The Journal of the Institute of African Studies, no 1, 2021, pp 5-16.

² Rossia I Africa, Dokumenty i materialy 1961- nachalo 1970-h. (In Russ.) Russia and Africa. Documents and Materials, 1961 – beginning of 1970-s). S.V. Mazov et al.(editors). M.: ROSSPEN. 2021, 1006 p.

³ Irina Filatova & Appolon Davidson. The Hidden Threat. Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2013.

⁴ Filatova I. and Davidson A. Rossiya o Yuyzhnaya Africa. Navedenie mostov (in Russ.) Russia and South Africa. Bridge Building. M.: Izdatelskii dom Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2012, P. 443.

⁵ Ibid. p.303.

⁶ I forwarded copies of these documents not only to the SACP leadership but to the South African National Archive as well.

⁷ Filatova I. and Davidson A. The Hidden Thread. Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era.Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2013, c.492

⁸ Filatova I. Comrade Mandela’s legacy to the ANC. Comrade Mandela’s legacy to the ANC (dispatchlive.co.za)

⁹ A.Yu. Urnov. Vneshnyaya politika SSSR v gody “kholodnoi voiny” i “novogo myshleniia” (in Russ). Foreign policy of the USSR during the “Cold War” and “New Thinking”. М.: RFK-Imidzh Lab. 2014; V.N. Tetekin. Afrikanist (in Russ). Afrticanist. M. 2021. Just like Professor Davidson, they were awarded the South African Order of Companions of O.R. Tambo.

¹⁰ Tainye voiny SSSR ot Sralina do Gorbacheva. Albom. . The USSR’s Secret Wars from Stalin to Gorbachev. Album (in Russ). M: Izdatelskii dom “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, 2022.

¹¹ “International solidarity in the fight against apartheid: historical memory in Russia and South Africa”, a joint project carried out in 2019-2021 with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (№19-514-60002) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF). See also ‘International solidarity in the fight against apartheid: historical memory in Russia and South Africa, On-line Symposium 22 January 2022, https://inafran.ru/en/node/1152

¹² Solidarnost v borbe protiv ararteida (in.) Solidarity in the struggle against apartheid. M. Institut Afriki RAN 2023. Solidarity in the fight against apartheid: Historical Memory in Russia and South Africa.