Chapter 7 Public Opinion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Glossary and Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 The Decision to Intervene Militarily in Afghanistan 9
8. Chapter 2 The Course of the War 26
9. Chapter 3 The Fortieth Army 57
10. Chapter 4 The Position of the Soviet Political Establishment 98
11. Chapter 5 The Implications of the Soviet-Afghan War for the Soviet Military 123
12. Chapter 6 Coverage of the War in the Soviet Media 136
13. Chapter 7 Public Opinion 161
14. Chapter 8 The Afgantsy 203
15. Chapter 9 Central Asia and the Soviet “Muslim” Peoples 251
16. Chapter 10 The War and the Demise of the Soviet Union 279
17. Notes 309
18. Bibliography 381
19. Index 393