The Bleeding Wound : The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System /

By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) had become a long, painful, and unwinnable conflict, one that Mikhail Gorbachev referred to as a "bleeding wound" in a 1986 speech. The eventual decis...

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Autor principal: Ro'i, Yaacov (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Cold War International History Project
Temas:
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
afgantsy.
censorship.
decision-making.
glasnost.
media.
public opinion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Decision to Intervene Militarily in Afghanistan
  • Chapter 2 The Course of the War
  • Chapter 3 The Fortieth Army
  • Chapter 4 The Position of the Soviet Political Establishment
  • Chapter 5 The Implications of the Soviet-Afghan War for the Soviet Military
  • Chapter 6 Coverage of the War in the Soviet Media
  • Chapter 7 Public Opinion
  • Chapter 8 The Afgantsy
  • Chapter 9 Central Asia and the Soviet "Muslim" Peoples
  • Chapter 10 The War and the Demise of the Soviet Union
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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