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Afghan Crucible Av Elisabeth (associate Professor Of History Associate Professor Of International History University Of Leeds) Leake

A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world.On 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. 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. 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. Yet Cold War competition is only a small part of the story. Soviet troops entered a country already at war with itself. A century of debates within Afghanistan over the nature of modern nationhood culminated in a 1978 coup in which self-describedAfghan communists pledged to fundamentally reshape A

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Afghan Crucible Av Elisabeth (associate Professor Of History Associate Professor Of International History University Of Leeds) Leake

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