The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...
From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a brutal and costly war in Afghanistan, seeking to prop up a communist government against insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen. Despite massive firepower ...
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...