Millennium- "This book is a masterly account not only of the
Soviet Union"s last war, but of the last days of the USSR
itself...The book is vintage Galeotti: incisive, extraordinarily
well-informed, fluently written, with a vigorous narrative drive
and balanced arguments."
The International History Review- "As Mark Galeotti shows in this
very readable and instructive work, the war in Afghanistan came to
symbolize the collapse of Soviet power from within...it goes far
towards explaining the methods by which the party élite
self-destructed in the late 1970s and 1980s. The arrogance by which
the Politburo approached the war and the political situation in
Kabul defeated its political purposes and became emblematic of its
inability to regenerate the Soviet-experiment."
Slavic Review -" Mark Galeotti"s probing and challenging study both
complements and supersedes previous works, providing a
comprehensive analysis of the war"s influence on the Soviet Union
and on post-Soviet Russia. It is a skillful piece of research,
lucidly presented, and it will find an appreciative audience among
students both of Russian society and of conflict studies"
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies- " This is an excellent
study about the considerable influence of this conflict on
contemporary Russia
Mark Galeotti
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