Umfang:
Lit.Hinw.
ISSN:
0268-4535
Inhalt:
During the late 1970s and 1980s, the People's Republic of Angola (PRA) was often regarded as a close ally of the Soviet Union, Cuba and certain East European regimes. Consequently, reforms initiated by that regime might conceivably be linked to the profound political and economic upheavals experienced by the former communist countries. While the relationship with the Soviet Union and Cuba did have an important influence on the development of the PRA, this is, however, only an incomplete interpretation. A detailed examination of the political and economic development of the regime and an understanding of its pragmatic external orientation suggest that recent reforms in Angola have a number of other roots and, in some respects, reflect a long process of adaptation. The MPLA regime's own experience of the inadequacies of vanguardist political structures and collectivist economic policies has been of considerable importance in generating reform. Other influences have been the pressures brought to bear by the MPLA's struggle against UNITA and South Africa, the implications of regional and internal agreements brokered between 1988 and 1991, and the Angolan economy's vulnerability to the vicissitudes of world market forces. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden)
In:
The journal of communist studies, London : Cass, 1985, 8(1992), 2, Seite 126-144, 0268-4535
In:
volume:8
In:
year:1992
In:
number:2
In:
pages:126-144
Sprache:
Englisch
