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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449700803321

Autore

Cordovez Diego

Titolo

Out of Afghanistan : the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal / / Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-280-52464-2

0-19-536268-3

1-60129-761-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 p.)

Disciplina

958.104/5

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Personal narratives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Map of Afghanistan; Overview: Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War; I: 1973-1979 The Road to Intervention; II: 1980-1981 The Last Days of Brezhnev; III: 1982-1983 Andropov: The Lost Opportunity; IV: 1984 The Chernenko Interregnum; V: 1985-1986 Gorbachev: Preparing the Ground for Disengagement; VI: 1987-1988 The End Game; Epilogue: The Withdrawal and After; Appendix: The Geneva Accords; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The United Nations mediator for the Afghanistan conflict and a foreign policy analyst provide their own interpretations of the negotiations that helped to end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They describe how the ideological hard line taken by the Reagan administration prolonged the conflict.