Out of Afghanistan : the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal / Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordovez, Diego, author.

Harrison, Selig S., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. General Assembly--Afghanistan.

United Nations.

Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989--Personal narratives.

Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Soviet withdrawal from Afganistan has been largely attributed to the bravery of the Afghan resistance reinforced by American weaponry and support. This book shows how it was in fact years of persistent United Nations initiatives that proved crucial to the conclusion of the Geneva accords, and that the ideological hard line of the Reagan administration prolonged the conflict. Diego Cordovez, the United Nations mediator for the Afghanistan conflict, and prominent foreign policy analyst Selig Harrison have written the definitive account of the negotiations that helped end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the last great clash of the cold war.

Contents:

Contents; Map of Afghanistan; Overview: Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War; I: 1973-1979 The Road to Intervention; II: 1980-1981 The Last Days of Brezhnev; III: 1982-1983 Andropov: The Lost Opportunity; IV: 1984 The Chernenko Interregnum; V: 1985-1986 Gorbachev: Preparing the Ground for Disengagement; VI: 1987-1988 The End Game; Epilogue: The Withdrawal and After; Appendix: The Geneva Accords; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-773377-8

1-280-52464-2

0-19-536268-3

1-60129-761-0

OCLC:

559910293