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Krivushin, I.V. Civil wars in Africa during the independence period.

Abstract: The article includes characteristic features of the civil wars in Africa during the Cold War and after its completion. It identifies the causes, driving forces, both external and internal factors, stages and effects. The attempt to determine the historical significance of the civil wars in the political and social evolution of the Black continent is made. This article was prepared with the support from the National Science Foundation Research University “Higher School of Economics”: Project ¹ 10-01-0073 “Genocide as a political decision in the era of globalization (as an example of the Central African region)”.


Keywords:

history, Africa, post-colonial epoch, civil wars, “cold war”, authoritarianism, conflict, representatives, democracy, genocide, ethnicisation


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