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Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War

Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War

Jones, Jeffrey W.

Hardcover

Eastern European HistoryGeneral Military HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1487562748
ISBN13: 9781487562748
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Aug 7 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book studies the complexities of the Soviet-Afghan War from several points of view, calling attention to the experiences of those involved.
The late-1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan compounded the lack of support among Afghans for their country's communist regime, which doomed the Soviet military undertaking from the start, and in turn contributed to the downfall of the Soviet system itself. Amid a battlefield of propaganda and disinformation from all sides that attempted to shape perceptions of the war, a clear undercurrent of opposition emerged within the USSR and grew over time, dominating the discourse during Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost (openness) reform in the late 1980s.

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