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UNINA9910815671003321 |
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Autore |
Cordovez Diego |
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Out of Afghanistan : the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal / / Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison |
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995 |
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©1995 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773377-8 |
1-280-52464-2 |
0-19-536268-3 |
1-60129-761-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (471 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Personal narratives |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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