Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan Leake Elisabeth
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan Leake Elisabeth A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in…
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Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan Leake Elisabeth
A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider worldOn 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. The Soviet war, and parallel covert American aid to Afghan resistance fighters, would come to be a defining event of international politics in the final years of the Cold War, lingering far beyond the Soviet Union's own demise. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of the world's superpowers would go to vie for supremacy in the global Cold War.
Soviet troops entered a country already at war with itself. Yet Cold War competition is only a small part of the story. A century of debates within Afghanistan over the nature
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