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The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race were often fought on the terrain of gender. Sexual violence--specifically, white-on-black rape--emerged as

Introduction : Why South Africa and Russia? . - Three Centuries : Russia and South Africa Before the Soviet Era . - Enter the Bolsheviks . - New Politics and New Business Contacts . - In the Communist International . - Indoctrination or Scholarship? : Teaching and Studying South Africa at the Communist University of Eastern Toilers . - The 'New Jerusalem' : The USSR's Friends and Fellow Travellers . - Together against Hitler . - The Red Peril : the USSR in South Africa's Cold War Ideology and Policy . - Against Colonialism and Apartheid : South Africa in Soviet Theory and Policy in the Cold War Era . - The Secret War . - The Regular War . - The ANC, the SACP and the USSR . - Comrades in Arms : Soviet Military Aid to the ANC . - 'Moscow Gold', Soviet Universities and Much Else . - The Promised Land . - Perestroika : Winds of Change in the North . - Pretoriastroika : Winds of Change in the South . - Volte Face : Establishing Diplomatic Relations . - Just Another Country? . - Postscript : The USSR and the 'South African Miracle'

"During the mid to late 1840s, dramatic riots shook the communities of Woodstock, Fredericton, and Saint John. Irish-Catholic immigrants fought Protestant Orangemen ... This book is the first serious historical treatment of the bloody riots and the tangled events that led to them."--Page [i]