In Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union it is usually called the Afghan war (Russian: Афганскаявойна, Ukrainian: ВійнавАфганістані, Belarusian language: Афганскаявайна, Uzbek language: Afgʻon urushi); it is sometimes...
The Soviet-Afghan War. How a Superpower Fought and Lost. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.McMicheal, Scott. "The Soviet-Afghan War." The Military History of the Soviet Union, edited by Robin Higham and Frederick W. Kagan. New York: PALGRAVE, 2002....
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988 and Volume VI, Soviet Union, October 1986–January 1989.President Ronald Reagan Administration White House FilesAn assortment of files related to Administration policy and the Soviet-Afghan War. Includes papers from Edward Lynch who worked as a cons...
The Soviet–Afghan War, 1978–1989: An Overview 1HISTORYEDITORIALSAFGHANISTANSOVIET occupation, 1979-1989SOVIET Union -- History, MilitaryPublication » The Soviet-Afghan War, 1978-1989: An Overview.doi:10.1080/14702430802252511Geraint HughesRoutledgeDefence Studies...
“Friendship Bridge,” the conflict hadcost the lives of an estimated 1 million civiliansand some 125,000 Afghan, Soviet and other combatants. The war wreaked havoc not only on Afghanistan, but on the Soviet Union, whose economy and national prestige took a severe drubbing. The military ...
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) Soviet Union Media Stereo recording of the Internationale in the Russian language. One of the many impacts of the approach to the environment in the USSR and post-Soviet states is theAral Sea. (See status in 1989 and 2014.) ...
The Americans first sought to increase costs for the Soviet Union by supplying funds and Soviet-style arms to the Afghan resistance (mujahadeen). Second, President Reagan escalated the conflict as part of a larger strategy, the "Reagan Doctrine." Third, the American strategy was integral in ...
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet‑Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.