The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System
(Part of the Cold War International History Project Series)
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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 decision to withdraw Soviet troops from Afghanistan created a devastating ripple effect within Soviet society that, this book argues, became a major factor in the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1503628744
ISBN13:9781503628748
Release Date:March 2022
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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