https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-5012
![Sample our Area Studies journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5922/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Area-Studies.jpg"})
Abstract
This paper argues that Tom Lodge’s Red Road to Freedom is a milestone in South African history and a model of historical writing. The author reconstructs the history of an underground revolutionary movement in all its complexity mobilizing a huge array of sources. He details the role the protagonists played, provides a wealth of information, and delves into local politics without ever losing sight of the bigger picture. Lodge demonstrates that the South African Communist Party (SACP) made “national democracy” and the alliance with ANC its cause and rallying cry effectively taking ownership of post-Stalinist Soviet political theory. Thus, he compels historians to delve into the actual materialization of international ideological currents in the global South.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
1 See Chapter 6, “The Secret Party: South African Communists Between 1950 and 1965,” in Lodge, Citation2021, 284–338.
2 Filatova, “The Lasting Legacy,” 515–7.
3 Filatova, Citation2012, 507–37.” See also Legvold, Citation1970, 111; Hough, Citation1986, 157–9; Graf, Citation1989, 27–52; Mark et al., Citation2020; Mark and Betts, Citation2022.
4 Drew, Citation2000; Everatt, Citation2009; Ellis, Citation2012; Maloka, Citation2014; Roth, Citation2016.
5 Davidson et al., Citation2003; Filatova and Davidson, Citation2013; Ellis, Citation2012.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Constantin Katsakioris
Constantin Katsakioris is an Associate Professor of History at the American University of Iraq-Baghdad and a former member of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. He has published extensively in global and transnational history (Journal of Global History, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Modern European History, Cold War History), in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies (Cahiers du Monde Russe, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Contemporary European History), as well as in African Studies (Cahiers d’Études africaines, Canadian Journal of African Studies, International Journal of African Historical Studies).