A long goodbye [electronic resource] : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.
2011
DK68.7.A6 K35 2011eb
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A long goodbye [electronic resource] : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.
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9780674061040 electronic book
9780674058668
0674058666
9780674058668
0674058666
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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English
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1 online resource (304 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill., maps.
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DK68.7.A6 K35 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
958.104/5
Summary
Chronicles the Soviet Union's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan in the 1980s and compares it to the challenges the United States may face in withdrawing from the region.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The reluctant intervention
The turn toward diplomacy
Gorbachev confronts Afghanistan
The national reconciliation campaign
Engaging with the Americans
The Army withdraws and the Politburo debates
Soviet policy adrift.
The turn toward diplomacy
Gorbachev confronts Afghanistan
The national reconciliation campaign
Engaging with the Americans
The Army withdraws and the Politburo debates
Soviet policy adrift.