A Long Goodbye : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

A Long Goodbye : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.

The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky's history of the USSR's...

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Main Author: Kalinovsky, Artemy M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, > 1931-2022.
Shevardnadze, Ė. A. > (Ėduard Amvrosievich), > 1928-2014.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, > 1931-2022
Shevardnadze, Ė. A. > (Ėduard Amvrosievich), > 1928-2014
1975-1991
Disengagement (Military science) > Case studies.
HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Diplomatic relations
Disengagement (Military science)
Afghanistan-Konflikt > 1979-1992.
Rückzug
Rückzug.
Afghanistankriget 1979-1989.
Afghanistan > relationer > Sovjetunionen.
Afghanistan > Foreign relations.
Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1975-1985.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Sowjetunion.
Afghanistan.
Sovjetunionen > relationer > Afghanistan.
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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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.

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