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'''Liya Oliverovna Golden''' (18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate. A national tennis champion and pianist during her youth, she worked at the {{ill|Institute for African Studies (Russia)|ru|Институт Африки РАН|lt=Institute for African Studies}} and did research on Black studies. After moving to the United States after Mikhail Gorbachev's ''[[glasnost]]'' and ''[[perestroika]]'' reforms, she became a scholar-in-residence at [[Chicago State University]] and an advocate for racial equality.
'''Liya Oliverovna Golden''' (18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate. A national tennis champion and pianist during her youth, she worked at the {{ill|Institute for African Studies (Russia)|ru|Институт Африки РАН|lt=Institute for African Studies}} and did research on Black studies. After moving to the United States after Mikhail Gorbachev's ''[[glasnost]]'' and ''[[perestroika]]'' reforms, she became a scholar-in-residence at [[Chicago State University]] and an advocate for racial equality.
==Biography==
==Biography==
Liya Oliverovna Golden was born on 18 July 1934 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.<ref name="Ernst 2018">{{Cite web |last=Ernst |first=Alina |date=2018-07-07 |title=Lily Golden (1934-2010) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/golden-lily-1934-2010/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=BlackPast |language=en-US}}</ref> Her father [[Oliver Golden]] was an African-American agronomist from the Southern United States, and her mother Bertha ({{nee}} Bialek) was a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ernst |first=Alina |date=2018-04-01 |title=Oliver Golden (1887-1940) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/golden-oliver-1887-1940/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=BlackPast |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Ernst 2018" /> The couple had moved to the Soviet Union to pursue an interracial and interfaith marriage.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Abramowitz |first=Michael |date=1992-09-28 |title=AFTER 60 YEARS, WELCOME AT LAST |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/09/28/after-60-years-welcome-at-last/81adb078-1563-4335-838a-dd8b5f98e05f/ |work=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> After being unable to return to their native United States alongside her mother due to [[anti-Black racism]] and [[World War II]], Golden remained in the Uzbek SSR, where she played tennis for the national team and was the 1948 national champion.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |date= |title=Елена Ханга – о специфике детско-юношеского тенниса в России и талантливых детях из малообеспеченных семей |trans-title=Elena Khanga – about the specifics of youth tennis in Russia and talented children from low-income families |url=https://www.bolshoisport.ru/articles/elena-hanga-o-spetsifike-detsko-yunosheskogo-tennisa-v-rossii-i-talantlivyh-detyah-iz-maloobespechennyh-semey |access-date=2024-06-22 |magazine=Bolshoi Sport |volume=10 |issue=76}}</ref> She was educated at the {{ill|State Conservatory of Uzbekistan|ru|Государственная консерватория Узбекистана}}, becoming a locally-renowned pianist.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> Following the encouragement of actor {{ill|Wayland Rudd|ru|Родд, Вейланд Леонардович}}, she majored in African-American history at [[Moscow State University]], where she became their first Black student.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="JSTOR 3648823">{{Cite journal |last=Peterson |first=Dale E. |date=2004 |title=Review of My Long Journey Home |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3648823 |journal=The Slavic and East European Journal |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=664–666 |jstor=3648823 |issn=0037-6752 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>
Liya Oliverovna Golden was born on 18 July 1934 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.<ref name="Ernst 2018">{{Cite web |last=Ernst |first=Alina |date=2018-07-07 |title=Lily Golden (1934-2010) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/golden-lily-1934-2010/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=BlackPast |language=en-US}}</ref> Her father [[Oliver Golden]] was an African-American agronomist from the Southern United States, and her mother Bertha ({{nee}} Bialek) was a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ernst |first=Alina |date=2018-04-01 |title=Oliver Golden (1887-1940) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/golden-oliver-1887-1940/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=BlackPast |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Ernst 2018" /> The couple had moved to the Soviet Union to pursue an interracial marriage.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Abramowitz |first=Michael |date=1992-09-28 |title=AFTER 60 YEARS, WELCOME AT LAST |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/09/28/after-60-years-welcome-at-last/81adb078-1563-4335-838a-dd8b5f98e05f/ |work=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> After being unable to return to their native United States alongside her mother due to [[anti-Black racism]] and [[World War II]], Golden remained in the Uzbek SSR, where she played tennis for the national team and was the 1948 national champion.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |date= |title=Елена Ханга – о специфике детско-юношеского тенниса в России и талантливых детях из малообеспеченных семей |trans-title=Elena Khanga – about the specifics of youth tennis in Russia and talented children from low-income families |url=https://www.bolshoisport.ru/articles/elena-hanga-o-spetsifike-detsko-yunosheskogo-tennisa-v-rossii-i-talantlivyh-detyah-iz-maloobespechennyh-semey |access-date=2024-06-22 |magazine=Bolshoi Sport |volume=10 |issue=76}}</ref> She was educated at the {{ill|State Conservatory of Uzbekistan|ru|Государственная консерватория Узбекистана}}, becoming a locally-renowned pianist.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> Following the encouragement of actor {{ill|Wayland Rudd|ru|Родд, Вейланд Леонардович}}, she majored in African-American history at [[Moscow State University]], where she became their first Black student.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="JSTOR 3648823">{{Cite journal |last=Peterson |first=Dale E. |date=2004 |title=Review of My Long Journey Home |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3648823 |journal=The Slavic and East European Journal |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=664–666 |jstor=3648823 |issn=0037-6752 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>


Golden began working at the African studies department of the [[Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences]], before becoming part of the newly-inaugurated {{ill|Institute for African Studies (Russia)|ru|Институт Африки РАН|lt=Institute for African Studies}} in 1958 and eventually serving as acting director.<ref name="JSTOR 3648823" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> Although her academic research was ideologically controlled, she did some research on [[Abkhazians of African descent]] and contemporary Black music.<ref name="JSTOR 3648823" /> In addition to her work on African music and the African diaspora of the Soviet Union, she worked on three Soviet documentaries about the [[First World Festival of Negro Arts]] in 1966 with camera operator Georgy Serov,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Razlogova |first=Elena |date=Spring 2022 |title=Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24 |journal=[[Black Camera]] |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=451–473 |doi=10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24 |issn=1947-4237}}</ref> and released an autobiography, ''My Long Journey Home'' (2003).<ref name="Ernst 2018" />
Golden began working at the African studies department of the [[Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences]], before becoming part of the newly-inaugurated {{ill|Institute for African Studies (Russia)|ru|Институт Африки РАН|lt=Institute for African Studies}} in 1958 and eventually serving as acting director.<ref name="JSTOR 3648823" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> Although [[Censorship in the Soviet Union|her academic research was ideologically controlled]], she did some research on "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music, as well as on [[Abkhazians of African descent]].<ref name="JSTOR 3648823" /> In addition to her work on African music and the African diaspora of the Soviet Union, she worked on three Soviet documentaries about the [[First World Festival of Negro Arts]] in 1966 with camera operator Georgy Serov,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Razlogova |first=Elena |date=Spring 2022 |title=Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24 |journal=[[Black Camera]] |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=451–473 |doi=10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24 |issn=1947-4237}}</ref> and released an autobiography, ''My Long Journey Home'' (2003).<ref name="Ernst 2018" />


In 1960, she married Prime Minister of Zanzibar [[Abdullah Kassim Hanga]], whom she had met during the [[6th World Festival of Youth and Students]] in 1957;<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> Their daughter, journalist [[Yelena Khanga]], was born in 1962, and the couple remained married until Hanga's execution in 1968.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> She later married Boris Yagovlev, a [[Vladimir Lenin]] expert.<ref name="newspapers 632869613" />
In 1960, she married Prime Minister of Zanzibar [[Abdullah Kassim Hanga]], whom she had met during the [[6th World Festival of Youth and Students]] in 1957;<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> Their daughter, journalist [[Yelena Khanga]], was born in 1962, and the couple remained married until Hanga's execution in 1968.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> She later married Boris Yagovlev, a [[Vladimir Lenin]] expert.<ref name="newspapers 632869613" />


In 1987, amidst Mikhail Gorbachev's ''[[glasnost]]'' and ''[[perestroika]]'' reforms, Golden visited the United States to find relatives at the invitation of [[Center for Citizen Initiatives]] founder Sharon Tennison.<ref name="newspapers 632869613">{{Cite news |last=Skipitares |first=Connie |date=1987-10-09 |title=Soviet wants to hunt her kin in Mississippi |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/632869613/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=11A}}</ref> She later moved to the country the next year, remaining there until 2003.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> She began working at [[Chicago State University]] in 1992, becoming a distinguished scholar-in-residence there.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> In 1989, she reunited with more than 100 of her father's relatives in [[Chicago]]. In 1992, she organized a reunion of both sides of the family.<ref name=":0" />
In 1987, amidst Mikhail Gorbachev's ''[[glasnost]]'' and ''[[perestroika]]'' reforms, Golden visited the United States to find relatives at the invitation of [[Center for Citizen Initiatives]] founder Sharon Tennison.<ref name="newspapers 632869613">{{Cite news |last=Skipitares |first=Connie |date=1987-10-09 |title=Soviet wants to hunt her kin in Mississippi |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/632869613/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=11A}}</ref> She later moved to the country the next year, remaining there until 2003,<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> and she also had her [[Birthright citizenship in the United States|birthright to United States citizenship]] upheld as the daughter of American parents.<ref name=":0" /> After her daughter's appearance on 20/20 led to a relative in [[Chicago]] connecting with her, she reunited with more than a hundred of her father's relatives there in 1989.<ref name=":0" /> She began working at [[Chicago State University]] in 1992, becoming a distinguished scholar-in-residence there,<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> as well as a translator of books on Russian history.<ref name=":0" /> On September 26, 1992, she met both sides of her family in the United States for the first time as part of a reunion.<ref name=":0" />


Inspired by her multiethnic heritage, she became an advocate for racial equality while living in the United States, and she was known to be a "tower of strength, hope and source of inspiration" for [[Afro-Russians]], especially with the rise of racism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and for her advancements in Russia's relations with Africa.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> She also was a United Nations representative for such NGOs as the [[Center for Citizen Initiatives]] and founded the Golden Foundation of Russian-African Culture.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" />
Inspired by her multiethnic heritage, she became an advocate for racial equality while living in the United States, and she was known to be a "tower of strength, hope and source of inspiration" for [[Afro-Russians]], especially with the rise of racism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and for her advancements in Russia's relations with Africa.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" /> She also was a United Nations representative for such NGOs as the [[Center for Citizen Initiatives]] and founded the Golden Foundation of Russian-African Culture.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /><ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu" />
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Golden died in Moscow on 6 December 2010.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> In 2024, Kester Kenn Klomegah said that Golden "has a special place in history of the relations between Russia and Africa" and that her works are "still considered as foundations to multifaceted relations from the Soviet times until today".<ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu">{{Cite news |last=Klomegah |first=Kester Kenn |date=2024-05-25 |title=Professor Lily Golden: Unforgettable African-Russian Academic and Social Influencer |url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/05/25/professor-lily-golden-unforgettable-african-russian-academic-and-social-influencer/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=Modern Diplomacy |language=en-US}}</ref>
Golden died in Moscow on 6 December 2010.<ref name="Ernst 2018" /> In 2024, Kester Kenn Klomegah said that Golden "has a special place in history of the relations between Russia and Africa" and that her works are "still considered as foundations to multifaceted relations from the Soviet times until today".<ref name="moderndiplomacy.eu">{{Cite news |last=Klomegah |first=Kester Kenn |date=2024-05-25 |title=Professor Lily Golden: Unforgettable African-Russian Academic and Social Influencer |url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/05/25/professor-lily-golden-unforgettable-african-russian-academic-and-social-influencer/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=Modern Diplomacy |language=en-US}}</ref>


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Lily Golden
Лия Оливеровна Голден
Golden in 2005
Born
Liya Oliverovna Golden

(1934-07-18)18 July 1934
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Died6 December 2010(2010-12-06) (aged 76)
Moscow, Russia
Occupations
  • Historian
  • civil rights activist
  • writer
Spouses
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(m. 1960; died 1968)​
  • Boris Yagovlev
ChildrenElena Khanga
FatherOliver Golden
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineBlack studies
Institutions

Liya Oliverovna Golden (18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate. A national tennis champion and pianist during her youth, she worked at the Institute for African Studies [ru] and did research on Black studies. After moving to the United States after Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, she became a scholar-in-residence at Chicago State University and an advocate for racial equality.

Biography

Liya Oliverovna Golden was born on 18 July 1934 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.[1] Her father Oliver Golden was an African-American agronomist from the Southern United States, and her mother Bertha (née Bialek) was a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States.[2][1] The couple had moved to the Soviet Union to pursue an interracial marriage.[3] After being unable to return to their native United States alongside her mother due to anti-Black racism and World War II, Golden remained in the Uzbek SSR, where she played tennis for the national team and was the 1948 national champion.[1][4] She was educated at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan [ru], becoming a locally-renowned pianist.[1] Following the encouragement of actor Wayland Rudd [ru], she majored in African-American history at Moscow State University, where she became their first Black student.[1][5]

Golden began working at the African studies department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, before becoming part of the newly-inaugurated Institute for African Studies [ru] in 1958 and eventually serving as acting director.[5][6] Although her academic research was ideologically controlled, she did some research on "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music, as well as on Abkhazians of African descent.[5] In addition to her work on African music and the African diaspora of the Soviet Union, she worked on three Soviet documentaries about the First World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 with camera operator Georgy Serov,[7] and released an autobiography, My Long Journey Home (2003).[1]

In 1960, she married Prime Minister of Zanzibar Abdullah Kassim Hanga, whom she had met during the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957;[1] Their daughter, journalist Yelena Khanga, was born in 1962, and the couple remained married until Hanga's execution in 1968.[1] She later married Boris Yagovlev, a Vladimir Lenin expert.[8]

In 1987, amidst Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, Golden visited the United States to find relatives at the invitation of Center for Citizen Initiatives founder Sharon Tennison.[8] She later moved to the country the next year, remaining there until 2003,[1] and she also had her birthright to United States citizenship upheld as the daughter of American parents.[3] After her daughter's appearance on 20/20 led to a relative in Chicago connecting with her, she reunited with more than a hundred of her father's relatives there in 1989.[3] She began working at Chicago State University in 1992, becoming a distinguished scholar-in-residence there,[1][6] as well as a translator of books on Russian history.[3] On September 26, 1992, she met both sides of her family in the United States for the first time as part of a reunion.[3]

Inspired by her multiethnic heritage, she became an advocate for racial equality while living in the United States, and she was known to be a "tower of strength, hope and source of inspiration" for Afro-Russians, especially with the rise of racism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and for her advancements in Russia's relations with Africa.[1][6] She also was a United Nations representative for such NGOs as the Center for Citizen Initiatives and founded the Golden Foundation of Russian-African Culture.[1][6]

Golden died in Moscow on 6 December 2010.[1] In 2024, Kester Kenn Klomegah said that Golden "has a special place in history of the relations between Russia and Africa" and that her works are "still considered as foundations to multifaceted relations from the Soviet times until today".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ernst, Alina (2018-07-07). "Lily Golden (1934-2010)". BlackPast. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  2. ^ Ernst, Alina (2018-04-01). "Oliver Golden (1887-1940)". BlackPast. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  3. ^ a b c d e Abramowitz, Michael (1992-09-28). "AFTER 60 YEARS, WELCOME AT LAST". Washington Post.
  4. ^ "Елена Ханга – о специфике детско-юношеского тенниса в России и талантливых детях из малообеспеченных семей" [Elena Khanga – about the specifics of youth tennis in Russia and talented children from low-income families]. Bolshoi Sport. Vol. 10, no. 76. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  5. ^ a b c Peterson, Dale E. (2004). "Review of My Long Journey Home". The Slavic and East European Journal. 48 (4): 664–666. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 3648823 – via JSTOR.
  6. ^ a b c d e Klomegah, Kester Kenn (2024-05-25). "Professor Lily Golden: Unforgettable African-Russian Academic and Social Influencer". Modern Diplomacy. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  7. ^ Razlogova, Elena (Spring 2022). "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978". Black Camera. 13 (2): 451–473. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24. ISSN 1947-4237.
  8. ^ a b Skipitares, Connie (1987-10-09). "Soviet wants to hunt her kin in Mississippi". The Miami Herald. pp. 11A. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
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