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The Soviet Union and Ethiopia: A Case of Traditional Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Sergius Yakobson
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The contemporary modus operandi of the Soviets in Ethiopia seems in many ways to be a refined and ideologically refurbished version of that of pre-Revolutionary days.

Russia's interest in Ethiopia is centuries old. An offer to join forces with Ethiopia and the Protestant West in the struggle against the Mohammedan Turks reached Moscow before the time of Peter the Great. Hiob Ludolf's pioneer work, Historia Aethiopica, was translated into Russian in the seventeenth century, and, nearly 150 years ago, the teaching of the Amharic language became a part of the Khar'kov University curriculum.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1963 , pp. 329 - 342
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1963

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