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The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle, the Soviets hastily retreated. It is a great story-but it never happened.

In this brilliant, myth-busting account, Rodric Braithwaite, the former British ambassador to Moscow, challenges much of what we know about the Soviets in Afghanistan. He provides an inside look at this little-understood episode, using first-hand accounts and piercing analysis to show the war as it was fought and experienced by the Russians. The invasion was a defensive response to a chaotic situation in the Soviets' immediate neighbor. They intended to establish a stable, friendly government, secure the major towns, and train the police and armed forces before making a rapid exit. But the mission escalated, as did casualties. Braithwaite does not paint the occupation as a Russian triumph. To the contrary, he illustrates the searing effect of the brutal conflict on soldiers, their families, and the broader public, as returning veterans struggled to regain their footing back home.

Now available in paperback, Braithwaite carries readers through these complex and momentous events, capturing those violent and tragic days as no one has done before.

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  • Title Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
  • Author Rodric Braithwaite
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, et al
  • Publication date 2011-09-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780199832651 / 019983265X
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.4 x 1.39 in (24.33 x 16.26 x 3.53 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - History, Afghanistan - History - Soviet occupation,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011015052
  • Dewey Decimal Code 958.104

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  • New York Review of Books, 02/09/2012, Page 30

About the author

Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador in Moscow from 1988 to 1992, and is now chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He is the author of Moscow 1941 and Across the Moscow River.
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