Search | Wilson Center Digital Archive

Switch to Visualization

Afghanistan Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Clear All

Related Resources

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

South Asia

Afghanistan

Afghan resistance fighters return to a village destroyed by Soviet forces

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Andrei Gromyko at the UN, 1981

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich

1909- 1989

Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

South Asia

Pakistan

Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

1914- 1984

Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906- 1982

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Ustinov, Dimitri F.

-

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Ponomarev, Boris Nikolaevich

1905- 1995

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

Middle East

President Ronald Reagan, Vice-President Bush, and oviet General Secretary Gorbachev

United States-Soviet Relations

Sino-Soviet Relations

Soviet Foreign Policy

Pakistani Nuclear History

Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

Results:

91 - 100 of 180

Display:

Sort By:

Documents

January 1988	Information about the 6th Meeting of the Multilateral Group for Current Information of the Warsaw Pact Member Countries This document provides a summary of the settlement between the Warsaw Pact countries and Afghanistan. It discusses how the coalition of socialist countries could have influenced the future of Afghan politics.
December 30, 1979	Ciphered Telegram from Bulgarian Embassy in Kabul, 30 December 1979 This document provides a statement Babrak Karmal's commitment to Afghan political party solidarity in the face of elements which attempted to de-stabilize his nation's democratic regime.
February 29, 1980	Report on the Meeting of the Foreign Secretaries of the Socialist Countries in Moscow, 26 February 1980 This document explains the views of the cooperating Socialist countries relating to Afghanistan. The USSR perceived the US attempt to line up NATO support against the Soviets as an aggressive action, designed to counter Soviet influence. The Soviets, by contrast, viewed their involvement in Afghanistan as increasing their sphere of influence around the Warsaw-pact countries, making such actions defense, rather than offensive. The USSR's leadership states that it should increase its ties to NATO countries to counteract the foreign policy of the US.
June 26, 1974	Decree of the CPSU CC - Information for the Leaders of the Progressive Afghan Political Organizations 'Parcham' and 'Khalq' Concerning the Results of the Visit of Mohammed Daud to the USSR This document provides information for the leaders of the progressive Afghan political parties; and results of the CC elections.
June 2, 1974	Top Secret Attachment, by KGB cipher Kabul This document emphasizes Soviet support for Afghanistan. The Soviets pledge to help with domestic and international policy, and state the cooperation between these two countries is in the interests of world peace.
June 29, 1979	Excerpt from Minutes Nº 156 of the CC CPSU Politburo meeting This document discusses the situations in Kabul with the CC CPSU and the CC PDPA.
February 16, 1980	Ciphered Telegram, Embassy of Hungary in India to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry A report from the Hungarian Embassy in India explaining that in the view of the Indian government, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan threatens regional stability as it could invite American and/or Chinese intervention.
January 23, 1980	CPSU CC Memo with excerpt from Protocol #180/64, 23 January 1980 Concerns orders to Soviet troops.
January 25, 1980	CPSU CC Memo with excerpt from Protocol #181/2 and attachments, 25 January 1980 Concerns Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
April 21, 1979	Protocol #150 of the CC CPSU Politburo Session, 21 April 1979 Concerns helicopter and ammunition deliveries from the Soviet Union to Afghanistan.