The Soviet Union’s collapse weakened both sides of South Africa’s standoff and forced negotiation
Evidence
Nevertheless, the ANC also had to negotiate between 1990 and its electoral triumph of 1994. The Soviet Union’s partial disintegration in 1989 had two crucial effects in South Africa. First, since conservatives claimed to serve as a bulwark against South Africa’s allies of an international communist conspiracy, it reduced the credibility of that claim. Second, it reduced external diplomatic and financial support for the ANC. Together, the two effects encouraged the United States to press both sides for a compromise solution far short of revolution. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586
- XREF: connects to: External great-power pressure pushed South Africa toward negotiated compromise — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586; An entrenched African proletariat and ANC-CP alliance enabled apartheid’s defeat. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 54
Broader Connections
- External great-power pressure pushed South Africa toward negotiated compromise
#expands(0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586 - An entrenched African proletariat and ANC-CP alliance enabled apartheid’s defeat.
#complicates(0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 54