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

Title
A long goodbye : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.
Author
Kalinovsky, Artemy M.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description
304 p.; 25 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
  • Shevardnadze, Ėduard Amvrosievich, 1928-
  • Shevardnadze, Ė. A. 1928-2014
  • Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
  • 1975-1991
  • Disengagement (Military science) > Case studies
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
  • Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1975-1985
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1985-1991
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
9780674058668 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010048681
OCLC
  • 676725384
  • SCSB-12330294
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library