The Blind Leading the Blind: Soviet Advisors, Counter-Insurgency and Nation-Building in Afghanistan

Posted date/time:July 7, 2011

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Artemy M. Kalinovsky

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Artemy M. Kalinovsky

Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam

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