"Yugoslavia's Help Was Extraordinary": Political and Material Assistance from Belgrade to the MPLA in Its Rise to Power, 1961–1975.

MOVIMENTO Popular de Libertacao de Angola-Partido de Trabalho; ANGOLAN foreign relations; NATIONAL liberation movements; ANGOLAN history; GUERRILLA warfare; ANGOLAN history, to 1975; YUGOSLAVIAN history, 1945-1980; INTERNATIONAL relations

Based on newly declassified documents from former Yugoslav archives, this article reconstructs the process of material and political assistance that was rendered to the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) by Yugoslavia throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s until the time of Angola's independence and the beginning of the Angolan civil war in 1975. The archival evidence demonstrates that Yugoslavia's assistance to the MPLA guerrillas was one of the crucial factors that enabled the organization not only to survive the vicissitudes of international politics, but also to preserve and stabilize its strength for the final phase of the power struggle in Angola. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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