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A long goodbye : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2011.Description: 304 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674058668
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 958.104/5 23
LOC classification:
  • DK68.7.A6 K35 2011
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.
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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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 958.1045 KA LO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0019583

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-294) and index.

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.

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