Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Soviet failure in Afghanistan
  • Setting the stage : evolution of party-military relations
  • Getting in : Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet decision to invade Afghanistan
  • No retreat ... no miracles : Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko in Afghanistan (1980-1985)
  • Gorbachev's quest for "reluctant, silent agreement" to withdraw from Afghanistan
  • Getting out : Gorbachev and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1986-1989)
  • Losing Afghanistan.