The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System

by Yaacov Ro'i

By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) had become a long, painful, and unwinnable conflict, one that Mikhail Gorbachev referred to as a "bleeding wound" in a 1986 speech. The eventual decision to withdraw Soviet troops from Afghanistan created a devastating ripple effect within Soviet society that, this book argues, became a major factor in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503628744
• ISBN13: 9781503628748
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"