Prof. Maxim Matusevich- From the Comintern to the Sovereignty Discourse: The Many Lives of Soviet Antiracism

Guest Lecture

prof. Maxim Matusevich

Professor and Department Chair, Department of History, Seton Hall University

From the Comintern to the Sovereignty Discourse: The Many Lives of Soviet Antiracism

Chair and moderator: Dr. Irit Back, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, TAU

The lecture examines the evolution of Soviet antiracism as an ideological construct but also a vehicle of state propaganda and foreign policy. From the days of the Comintern through the years of the Cold War and now at the time of post-Soviet Russia’s new confrontations with the West, including in Africa, the evocations of antiracism and anticolonialism have retained a prominent place in the Kremlin’s influence campaigns directed at the Global South and Western public opinion.

Maxim Matusevich is a historian of Africa and the Cold War, and has published extensively on the history of the Cold War in Africa and the history of African-Soviet encounters. He also writes fiction and non-fiction and consults on documentary film projects.

Wednesday, 10/01/2024, 12:15

Class 455, Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University