A Long Goodbye

The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Artemy M. Kalinovsky

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$27.95 • £22.95 • €25.00

ISBN 9780674058668

Publication Date: 05/16/2011

Short

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 halftones, 3 maps

World

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Artemy Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Research Associate at the Cold War Studies Programme at the London School of Economics and Politics.

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