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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Books on: afghanistan and soviet invasion

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The Soviet Union and Iran: Soviet Policy in Iran from the Beginnings of the Pahlavi Dynasty until the Soviet Invasion in 1941

Book by Miron Rezun; Westview Press, 1988

Subjects:

Iran--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1917-1945, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Iran

Collections: History, Entire Library

...until the Soviet Invasion in 1941 MIRON REZUN...Rezun, Miron. The Soviet Union and Iran...cataclysmic events in Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran...link with the recent Soviet invasion of Afghanistan--which, to me, has...
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Afghanistan and the Soviet Union: Collision and Transformation

Book by Milan Hauner, Robert L. Canfield; Westview Press, 1989

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989, Afghanistan--Relations--Soviet Union, Afghanistan--Strategic Aspects, Asia, Central--Strategic Aspects, Soviet Union--Relations--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Kabul and Teheran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Gulf War...causes that led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979...dispute over whether the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan should be considered...
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Analysis and Chronology

Book by Tom Rogers; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989

Collections: History, Entire Library

This reference analyzes and chronicles the Soviet occupation of and withdrawal from Afghanistan in the period from 1973 to 1990 by an observer in the area who relied on a variety of sources and cross-checked them carefully. The analysis of events leading to the Soviet withdrawal covers the important ...
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This reference analyzes and chronicles the Soviet occupation of and withdrawal from Afghanistan in the period from 1973 to 1990 by an observer in the area who relied on a variety of sources and cross-checked them carefully. The analysis of events leading to the Soviet withdrawal covers the important negotiations and relates them to historic changes taking place in the Soviet Union and in its relationship to the rest of the world. The detailed chronology occupies the main portion of the book. An index makes this indispensable reference tool easily accessible to researchers and students in various fields.
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The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan

Book by Alfred L. Monks; American Enterprise Institute, 1981

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Afghanistan--History--Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...led to the full-scale invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops in late December...Jiri Valenta, "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Difficulty of...that took part in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- at least during the...
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Russia's South Flank: Soviet Operations in Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan

Book by Günther Nollau, Hans Jürgen Wiehe, Victor Andersen; Praeger, 1963

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Iran--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Middle East, Turkey--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union

Collections: History, Entire Library

...most serious effects on Afghanistan. The Soviet troops stayed in Gilan...interests in India and Afghanistan. Already, Soviet Russian national interests...further expansion by the Soviet Union. 6 Afghanistan was unaffected by all...

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Journal Articles on: afghanistan and soviet invasion

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Anarchy in Afghanistan

Journal article by Zalmay Khalilzad; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 51, 1997

Subjects:

Afghanistan--History, Mujaheddin (Afghanistan)--Military aspects, Soviet Union--Relations with Afghanistan, War--Afghanistan

Collections: Entire Library

...example, Radio Afghanistan began airing...languages. The Soviet Union, which...Soviet Unions invasion in December...government in Afghanistan since the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989...to the Soviet invasion, Pakistan was...
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The Bear on the Chessboard: Soviet Military Gains in Afghanistan

Journal article by Yossef Bodansky; World Affairs, Vol. 145, 1982

Subjects:

Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace

Collections: Entire Library

...gained by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan are many...Strategically, the invasion brings the...nature of pre-invasion Soviet military activity in Afghanistan: the Russians...since the invasion. They include...experience in Afghanistan, the Soviet art of war...
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The Russian Rope: Soviet Economic Motives and the Subversion of Afghanistan

Journal article by Abdul Tawab Assifi; World Affairs, Vol. 145, 1982

Subjects:

Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace

Collections: Entire Library

...1979, the invasion of Afghanistan, a neutral...country, by Soviet military...the brutal invasion and occupation...Ostensibly, Afghanistan was free to use Soviet loans and...Development of Afghanistan" (University...the 1979 invasion, the Soviets, who now...
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A Soviet Ambassador in Kabul Writes Us a Letter -- Sixty Years Ago or Today?

Journal article; World Affairs, Vol. 145, 1982

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Afghanistan

Collections: Entire Library

...the road to freedom and independence." Afghanistan had established diplomatic relations...treaties however stipulated that the Soviet Union pledged itself to recognize the...opposition to the idea of a Soviet invasion of the Emirate. But when Soviet troops...
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Afghanistan: Regaining Momentum

Journal article by Ali A. Jalali; Parameters, Vol. 37, 2007

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Economic aspects, Afghanistan--Safety and security measures, Afghanistan--Social aspects, Drug dealing--Influence, Drug traffic--Influence, Government legitimacy--Evaluation, Insurgency--Afghanistan, Insurgency--Control, Insurgency--Military aspects, Legitimacy of governments--Evaluation, Presidents (Government)--Powers and duties, Presidents--Powers and duties, Rule of law--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...former colonel in the Afghan army and was a top military planner with the Afghan resistance following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mr. Jalali is the author of several books, including a three-volume military history of Afghanistan. His...

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Magazine Articles on: afghanistan and soviet invasion

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Focussed on Faith: Since Smuggling Himself into Afghanistan to Take Some of the First Pictures of the Soviet Invasion, Steve McCurry Has Become One of World's Best-Known Photographers. Keith Wilson Caught Up with Him in New York to Discuss His New Book, the Path to Buddha

Magazine article by Keith Wilson; Geographical, Vol. 75, December 2003

Subjects:

Asia--Portrayals, Asia--Religious aspects, Buddhism, Lamaism, McCurry, Steve--Interviews, News photographers, Photography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Himself into Afghanistan to Take Some...Pictures of the Soviet Invasion, Steve McCurry...before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, McCurry...Pakistan to Afghanistan to photograph...rebels and Soviet forces. His...
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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan ... How It's Going, Three Years after Invasion/liberation

Magazine article by Radek Sikorski; National Review, Vol. 56, October 11, 2004

Subjects:

Afghanistan Conflict, 2001---Analysis, Afghanistan--Forecasts and trends, Afghans (Asian people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Afghans (Asian people)--Civil rights, Afghans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Afghans--Civil rights, Military occupation--Analysis, Social conditions--Analysis

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...Three Years after Invasion/liberation...heard that sound in Afghanistan was in 1987: A patrol of Soviet Mi-24s were spitting...the past, when a Soviet invasion was assumed to be...operations such as Afghanistan, however, it creates...
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The Collapse of Objectivity: Looking at Recent Books about Terrorism

Magazine article by Anis Shivani; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Coll, Steve--Criticism and interpretation, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Sociopolitical literature--Criticism and interpretation, Terrorism--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001...the war against the Soviet empire had concluded. Afghanistan was similarly abandoned...California after the Soviet invasion, and having lost an...
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Mujaheddin Memories

Magazine article by Radek Sikorski; National Review, Vol. 56, August 23, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001...against the Soviets in Afghanistan was undeniably effective...More important, the Soviets failed Afghan invasion cost them their claim...
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America and Afghanistan: A Troubled History : With the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, American Interest Quicklly Lapsed, Even Though the Afghan Conflict Had Helped to End the Cold War

Magazine article by Martin Ewans; World and I, Vol. 17, March 2002

Subjects:

Afghan foreign relations--United States, Afghanistan, United States, United States foreign relations--Afghanistan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...roads across the country (which later facilitated the Soviet invasion), while the United States also concentrated on assisting the University of Kabul and Afghanistans national airline, Ariana. It was fortunate for...

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Newspaper Articles on: afghanistan and soviet invasion

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Pakistan Is Not Supporting the Taleban in Afghanistan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 1, 1996

Subjects:

Afghanistan, Pakistan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in efforts to turn Afghanistan into a "satellite state," it should be remembered that following the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan, at great risk to its own security, had lent all-out help to the Afghans in their...
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THE ART OF WARLORD; Flip-Flopping General a Mixed Blessing to U.S. in Afghanistan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 12, 2008

Subjects:

Al-Qaeda, Dostum, Abdul Rashid, Karzai, Hamid

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Soviet Union for military studies. He returned to Afghanistan in the mid-1970s and took a job as a foreman in the...fields in his home province. He rose to power after the Soviet invasion in 1979, forming a militia made up mainly of Uzbeks...
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Confidence Lags in Afghanistan as Violence Rises; Official Cites 'External' Forces

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Mr. Spanta joined the Afghan resistance to the 1979 Soviet invasion, eventually settling in Germany and working with left-wing...a decade at Aachen University before returning to Afghanistan in 2004, becoming a top foreign policy adviser to...
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Wrong History on Afghanistan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 27, 2007

Subjects:

Al-Qaeda, bin Laden, Osama

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in his column on Russia, Afghanistan and possible Syrian warm...war of resistance to the Soviet invasion and the collapse of the Soviet...right is saying that absent a Soviet/Russian invasion of Afghanistan, none of the above would...
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Learning Lessons from Afghanistan; Religion Is Said to Cause More Wars Than Anything Else. the Bishop for Birmingham, the Rt Rev John Sentamu, Wanted to Find out for Himself If It Was True, If Religion Helps or Hinders. but His Trip to Afghanistan Gave Him Much More Food for Thought -and Showed Him an Example He Thinks We in Britain Would Do Well to Follow. Caroline Foulkes Reports

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with organisations in Afghanistan since 1984. So they were there during the Soviet invasion, during the rule of...the people. People in Afghanistan look on Christian Aid...his trip. During the Soviet invasion, the village was totally...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: afghanistan and soviet invasion

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Afghanistan War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

AFGHANISTAN WAR 1978 92...Afghan government and Soviet forces. The conflict...power, provoked an invasion (Dec., 1979) by Soviet...president. The Soviet invasion, which sparked Afghan...a stalemate, with Soviet and government forces...Massoud. The war left Afghanistan with severe political...
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Faizabad , City, Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and administrative center of NE Afghanistan and the Pamir region, Faizabad also...guerrillas attempting to repel the Soviet invasion. Faizabad was taken by Soviet forces in 1980 and became a major Soviet garrison town...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...applying the Brezhnev doctrine to Afghanistan. A 10-year occupation of that...United States response to the invasion was swift; it shelved the...The basic poverty of the Soviet people, the waste of the countrys...agreement to withdraw from Afghanistan, a process that was completed...
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Karzai, Hamid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and his family fled Afghanistan (1979) after the Soviet invasion. Karzai studied (1979...fight against the Soviets in the Afghanistan War . After the Soviet withdrawal he returned...American intervention in Afghanistan and when U.S. bombing...
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Bin Laden, Osama

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Jidda), but following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan War...next year. Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, he returned to his familys...reestablished himself in Afghanistan, where the extreme Islamic...

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