Afgantsy

pp. 488.

39 M. Yousaf and M. Adkin, Afghanistan: The Bear Trap (Barnsley, 1992), p. 208.

40 ‘Dalnyaya aviatsia Rossii’ (www.sinopa.ee/davia003/dav03.htm).

41 Krivosheev, Rossia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka, p. 539.

42 Lyakhovski, Tragedia i doblest Afgana, 2004, pp. 766–7.

43 See http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16922.

44 Air Assault Comes to Afghanistan (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php? 16922-(Soviet)-Air-Assault-Comes-to-Afghanistan-1984).

45 B. Gromov, Ogranichenny kontingent (Moscow, 1994) (http://www.rsva.ru/biblio/prose_af/li mited_contingent/index.shtml).

7: The Nationbuilders

1 Martha Brill Olcott, ‘Soviet Islam and World Revolution’, World Politics, Vol. 23, No. 2, July 1982, p. 488, quoted in A. Kalinovsky, ‘Intruder in the “Communal Apartment”: The Afghan War, Soviet Muslims, and the Collapse of the USSR’, paper prepared for the HY510 seminar, London School of Economics, 11 November 2009.

2 These aid figures come from A. Kalinovsky, ‘The Blind Leading the Blind: Soviet Advisors, Counter- insurgency and Nation-Building in Afghanistan’, paper prepared for HY510 seminar, London School of Economics, 11 February 2009, and A. Kalinovsky, ‘A Long Goodbye: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1980–1992’, PhD thesis, London School of Economics, 2009, p. 120.

3 D. Gai and V. Snegirev, Vtorzhenie (Moscow, 1991), p. 322; V. Snegirev, Ryzhy (Moscow, 2000), p. 157.

4 Gai and Snegirev, Vtorzhenie, p. 323.

5 Ibid., p. 361.

6 V. Kryuchkov, Lichnoe delo, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1996), p. 220; B. Padishev, ‘Najibullah, president Afghanistana’, International Affairs (Moscow), January 1990, p. 23, quoted in Kalinovsky, ‘A Long Goodbye’.

7 V. Snegirev in A. Belofastov and A. Rebrik (eds.), Mushavery (Moscow, 2005), p. 27.

8 A. Maiorov, Pravda ob afganskoi voine (Moscow, 1996), p. 117.

9 Gai and Snegirev, Vtorzhenie, p. 317.

10 Valeri and Galina Ivanov, interview, Moscow, 14 March 2010.

11 Maiorov, Pravda ob afganskoi voine, p. 110; Valeri Shiryaev, interview, Moscow, 12 March 2010.

12 I. Tukharinov, Sekretny komandarm (http://www.rsva.ru/biblio/prose_af/secret_c om/index.shtml); Valeri Shiryaev, interview, Moscow, 12 March 2010.

13 Kalinovsky, ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’.

14 Gai and Snegirev, Vtorzhenie, p. 317.

15 G. Kireev, Kandagarski dnevnik (http://kireev.info/index.html).

16 Belofastov and Rebrik (eds.), Mushavery, p. 13.

17 Ibid., pp. 40 and 41.

18 Yevgeni Kiselev, interview, Moscow, 24 March 2010.

19 A. Greshnov, Afganistan: Zalozhniki vremeni (Moscow, 2006), pp. 26 and 27.

20 J. Van Bladel, The All-Volunteer Force in the Russian Mirror: Transformation without Change (Groningen, 2004).

21 A. Smolina, ‘Larisa-parikmakhersha’ (http://artofwar.ru/s/smolina_a/text_0160.shtml).

22 One such case is mentioned in Gai and Snegirev, Vtorzhenie, p. 277.

23 A. Smolina, ‘Otvet “Afganki” dla avtorshi “Tsinkovykh Malchikov”’ (http://artofwar.ru/s/smolina_a/text_0150.shtml).

24 Gai and Snegirev, Vtorzhenie, p. 284.

25 G. Krivosheev, Rossia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: Poteri vooruzhennykh sil (Moscow, 2001), p. 537.

26 ‘Veterany boevykh deistvii NizhneKamsk’ (http://www.afgankamsk.ucoz.ru/index/0– 4).

27 Smolina, ‘Larisa-parikmakhersha’.

28 A. Smolina, ‘Medsestra Tatiana Kuzmina (1951–1986)’ (http://artofwar.ru/s/smolina_a/).

29 A. Smolina, ‘Otvet “Afganki” dla avtorshi “Tsinkovykh Malchikov”’ (http://artofwar.ru/s/smolina_a/text_0150.shtml).

30 S. Aleksievich, Zinky Boys (New York, 1992), p. 114.

31 A. Smolina, ‘Iz okoshka devichego modulya, ili vospominania “Afganok”’ (http://artofwar.ru/s/smolina_a/text_0200.shtml).

32 Colonel Viktor Antonenko, interview, Moscow, 31 May 2007.

33 Aleksievich, Zinky Boys, p. 114.

34 Ibid., pp. 41 and 24.

35 Private information.

36 Alexander Khoroshavin posted his comments in the online ‘smoking room’ of the regiment on 25 June 2006 (http://artofwar.ru/b/bobrow_g_1/kurilka860doc.sht ml).

37 A tactic also adopted by women working in other circumstances, such as the intimate conditions of a long posting to a scientific research station in the Antarctic, where one or two women may be cooped up with their male colleagues for months at a time: conversation with Meredith Hooper, 17 May 2008.

38 A. Dyshev, PPZh: Pokhodno-polevaya Zhena (Moscow, 2007). The book’s verisimilitude is vouched for by Colonel Antonenko, Valeri Shiryaev, and Alexander Gergel.

39 Dmitri Fedorov, email to author, 25 July 2007.

40 Vyacheslav Nekrasov, interview, Moscow, 28 July 2009; V. Snegirev, ‘Nashi’, Rossiiskaya gazeta (http://www.rg.ru/peoples/sneg/1.shtm).

41 Maiorov, Pravda ob afganskoi voine, pp. 145–8.

42 M. Yousaf and M. Adkin, Afghanistan: The Bear Trap (Barnsley, 1992), p. 146.