Mark Galeotti

Afghanistan

The Soviet Union's Last War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Soviet Union's last war was played out against the backdrop of dramatic change within the USSR. This is the first book to study the impact of the war on Russian politics and society. Based on extensive use of Soviet official and unofficial sources, as well as work with Afghan veterans, it illustrates the way the war fed into a wide range of other processes, from the rise of grassroots political activism to the retreat from globalism in foreign policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780714682426
• ISBN-10: 071468242X
• Artikelnr.: 21983534

Autorenporträt

Mark Galeotti

Inhaltsangabe

Millennium- "This book is a masterly account not only of the Soviet Union"s
last war, but of the last days of the USSR itself...The book is vintage
Galeotti: incisive, extraordinarily well-informed, fluently written, with a
vigorous narrative drive and balanced arguments."
The International History Review- "As Mark Galeotti shows in this very
readable and instructive work, the war in Afghanistan came to symbolize the
collapse of Soviet power from within...it goes far towards explaining the
methods by which the party élite self-destructed in the late 1970s and
1980s. The arrogance by which the Politburo approached the war and the
political situation in Kabul defeated its political purposes and became
emblematic of its inability to regenerate the Soviet-experiment."
Slavic Review -" Mark Galeotti"s probing and challenging study both
complements and supersedes previous works, providing a comprehensive
analysis of the war"s influence on the Soviet Union and on post-Soviet
Russia. It is a skillful piece of research, lucidly presented, and it will
find an appreciative audience among students both of Russian society and of
conflict studies"
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies- " This is an excellent study about
the considerable influence of this conflict on contemporary Russia