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  title info:
    title: Smoke, mirrors, and memories
    sub title: legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War
  name:
    name part: Jones, Jeffrey W.
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book is a cultural history of the Soviet experience of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-89). After an introductory chapter offering an overview of the war, the MS focuses on how it was experienced by Soviet soldiers and civilians. Chapters address the military experience in Afghanistan, opposition at home (drawing predominantly on the archives of the KGB in Ukraine), propaganda and representations of the war in Soviet film (a particularly strong chapter according to reviewers). Looking across these various domains, the author argues that the evident gap between rhetoric and reality in the Soviet prosecution of the war undermined public support not just for the war but for the Soviet state in its entirety. In the conclusion, he looks at some of the more telling continuities between the Soviet quagmire in Afghanistan and the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  table of contents: "Under No Circumstances May We Lose Afghanistan": From the "Great Game" to the Soviet-Afghan War -- "I Brought My Truth Back in a Plastic Bag": Soviet Soldiers in the Soviet-Afghan War -- "We Do Not Want Our Sons to Become Sacrifices in Afghanistan": Opposition to the Soviet-Afghan War in the USSR -- "Children Are the Intended Victims of Soviet Land Mine Campaign": Propaganda in the Soviet-Afghan War -- "Eh, Tolian, We Are All 'Cargo 300'": Reel War - The Soviet-Afghan War on Screen -- "The Almond Trees Were in Blossom in Termez": Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War.
  note: Jeffrey W. Jones.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: a-af---
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: History
    temporal: Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: History
    temporal: Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
    genre: Personal narratives, Soviet
  classification: 958.104/5
  identifier: 9781487562748
  identifier: 1487562748
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 250114
    record change date: 20260206190417.1
    record identifier: in00005670515
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng