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050	0	4	_aDK68 _b.L664 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKalinovsky, Artemy M. _e1
245	1	0	_aA Long Goodbye : _bthe Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan / _cArtemy M. Kalinovsky.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aThe reluctant intervention -- _tThe turn toward diplomacy -- _tGorbachev confronts Afghanistan -- _tThe national reconciliation campaign -- _tEngaging with the Americans -- _tThe Army withdraws and the Politburo debates -- _tSoviet policy adrift.
520	0		_aThe conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky's history of the USSR's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region. What makes Kalinovsky's intense account both timely and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the conflict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mission shortly after the initial deployment?Newly available archival material, supplemented by interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal would diminish the USSR's status as leader of the Third World is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing interests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Union's superpower rival in the West. This book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for much too long.
520	0		_aWhy did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long-term consequences for the Soviet Union and the region.
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600	1	0	_aGorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, _d1931-2022.
650		0	_aDisengagement (Military science) _vCase studies.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=597459&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell