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Afghan Crucible : The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Afghan Crucible : The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan about?
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 parall
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- Author
- Elisabeth Leake
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Academic UK
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192584861
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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