A Long Goodbye - The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Informationen zum Autor Artemy Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Research Associate at the Cold War Studies Programme at the London School of Economics and Politics. Klappentext Why did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long-term consequences for the Soviet Union and the region. Zusammenfassung Why did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long-term consequences for the Soviet Union and the region.

Product details

• Authors: Artemy Kalinovsky, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Kalinovsky Artemy M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674058668
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05866-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; History, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, International Relations, Central Asia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Modern warfare, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General