Elizabeth (Betty) Banks is a historian of the Soviet Union and modern Africa, currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

'Elizabeth Banks skilfully shows that socialist solidarity is not made in drunken toasts to friendship of nations but in nitty gritty agreements to provide everything from rifles to technical advisors to fishing nets. With deep research in archives from Maputo to Moscow, Banks offers a truly original history of Soviet-Mozambique relations, one that sheds light on the antimonies of revolution across the postcolonial world.' David Engerman, Yale University

• Introduction; Part I. Building Solidarity: 1. Diplomacy on the beach; 2. Becoming a state, becoming socialists; Part II. The Values of Solidarity: 3. Seeing solidarity in the soviet planned economy; 4. Waiting for Tereshkova; 5. Tales of shrimp and debt; Part III. The End of Cold War Solidarity: 6. The deaths of socialism; Epilogue.

Elizabeth (Betty) Banks is a historian of the Soviet Union and modern Africa, currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

'Elizabeth Banks skilfully shows that socialist solidarity is not made in drunken toasts to friendship of nations but in nitty gritty agreements to provide everything from rifles to technical advisors to fishing nets. With deep research in archives from Maputo to Moscow, Banks offers a truly original history of Soviet-Mozambique relations, one that sheds light on the antimonies of revolution across the postcolonial world.' David Engerman, Yale University

• Introduction; Part I. Building Solidarity: 1. Diplomacy on the beach; 2. Becoming a state, becoming socialists; Part II. The Values of Solidarity: 3. Seeing solidarity in the soviet planned economy; 4. Waiting for Tereshkova; 5. Tales of shrimp and debt; Part III. The End of Cold War Solidarity: 6. The deaths of socialism; Epilogue.