A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from AfghanistanHarvard University Press, 16. mai 2011 - 304 sider 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 nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region. |
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Introduction | 1 |
1 The Reluctant Intervention | 16 |
2 The Turn toward Diplomacy | 54 |
3 Gorbachev Confronts Afghanistan | 74 |
4 The National Reconciliation Campaign | 93 |
5 Engaging with the Americans | 122 |
6 The Army Withdraws and the Politburo Debates | 147 |
7 Soviet Policy Adrift | 178 |
Conclusion | 206 |
Abbreviations | 229 |
Notes | 231 |
A Note on Sources | 276 |
Bibliography | 278 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
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