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Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the 

Seizure of Kabul, December 1979 

 

By Alexander Antonovich Liakhovsky 

Translations by Gary Goldberg and Artemy Kalinovsky 

January 2007 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

I. Preface      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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by James G. Hershberg and Svetlana Savranskaya                                                                                                    

II. Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan       

 

 

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and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979                                                                             

by Alexander Antonovich Liakhovsky   

 

 

III. Literature and Sources   

 

 

 

 

 

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IV. 

About 

the 

Author        

 

 

 

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