The Beast of War was released in 1988 and tells the story of a Soviet tank crew led by a tyrannical officer who get lost in ...

Prof. Myers's book manuscript, Moving Target: The Soviet-Afghan War in Russian Culture, argues that a new era of war storytelling in the Soviet and post-Soviet world began unnoticed with the ...

That’ll be like the Soviet-Afghan war on steroids. That guerilla war killed tens of thousands of Soviet troops, severely degraded the titan’s military and catalysed the 1991 breakup of the USSR.

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...