A Slow Reckoning: The Ussr, the Afghan Communists, and Islam - Hardcover
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A Slow Reckoning: The Ussr, the Afghan Communists, and Islam
A Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). As Vassily Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project.
A Slow Reckoning...
Vassily Klimentov has received SNSF postdoctoral fellowships to conduct research at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Zurich. He holds a PhD in International History from the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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