Long Goodbye : : The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan /

Long Goodbye : : The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan / / Artemy 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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Kalinovsky, Artemy,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 11 halftones, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Reluctant Intervention
  • 2 The Turn toward Diplomacy
  • 3 Gorbachev Confronts Afghanistan
  • 4 The National Reconciliation Campaign
  • 5 Engaging with the Americans
  • 6 The Army Withdraws and the Politburo Debates
  • 7 Soviet Policy Adrift
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • A Note on Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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