Kalinovsky, Artemy M. <br/><br/>
A long goodbye :  the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / 
Artemy M. Kalinovsky 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  c2011. 
 - 304 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-294) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674058668 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010048681 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Afghanistan<br/>Afghanistan--Foreign relations--Soviet Union<br/>Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989<br/>Russia--Foreign relations--Afghanistan<br/>Afghanistan--Foreign relations--Russia<br/>Afghanistan--History<br/>Russia--Foreign relations
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK68.7.A6  / K35 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.104/5