Cold War Liberation by Natalia Telepneva

Author:Natalia Telepneva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: the University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

FRELIMO in Crisis: The View from Moscow

The crisis that enveloped FRELIMO in 1966–69 consisted of an interconnected series of intraparty conflicts, culminating in the murder of Eduardo Mondlane in 1969. Since FRELIMO’s inception in 1962, conflicts inside the organization had been defined by struggles between “northerners,” predominantly Makonde rank-and-file members, and “southerners,” mestiço-assimilado elites epitomized by such figures as Eduardo Mondlane and Marcelino dos Santos. The north-south divide also correlated with the growing ideological rift between capitalist and socialist modernizers inside FRELIMO. Debates around race, class, and ideology were closely intertwined with rivalries over access to political power. The crisis was further complicated as warring factions sought supporters in TANU, Tanzania’s ruling party. The Soviets acted mainly as observers in this process as they tried to untangle the shifting political alliances to determine which “side” reflected their interests.

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