![]() | Long Goodbye: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Subjects: 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; Gor; 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. Kalinovsky Artemy M. : 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. |
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