title: Soviet Project of Nation-State-Building in Afghanistan
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metadata.value: Nabat, Maria M.
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metadata.value: 2022-10-03T14:18:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-10-03T14:18:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Nabat M. M. Soviet Project of Nation-State-Building in Afghanistan. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, pp. 162–175. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.201
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38067
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metadata.value: The article examines the Soviet Union’s policy in Afghanistan during the period of its military
  presence there (1979–1989) as a set of measures corresponding to the modern interpretation
  of the concepts of nation-building and state-building. It also analyzes modern theories of nation-
  and state-building and highlights their main trends, forms, and problems. The author
  also proposes a unique approach that combines these two concepts as “nation-state-building”
  in relation to the Soviet project in Afghanistan. The article elaborates on the main tasks of the
  Soviet policy in the 1980s in Afghanistan as well as their implementation and results. Due to
  the combination of “nation-building” and “state-building” concepts in a complex structure of
  “nation-state-building”, the article draws conclusions, first, about the applicability of this approach
  to the specific Soviet project of state-building in Afghanistan, and, second, about the
  complexity of the project itself, which included ideological, political, economic, and military
  components. On the basis of archive documents, memoirs of military and diplomatic actors,
  and a wide scope of academic research, the author substantiates the idea of large-scale tasks
  of nation-state-building in Afghanistan in Soviet foreign policy, and also indicates that the
  implementation of the project encountered great difficulties from the unfolding civil war to
  the inability of the Afghan leaders to consolidate the political life of the country. Soviet leadership
  quickly realized the unreadiness of the Afghan society for the proposed systemic social
  transformations. Despite the fact that the goals of the Soviet project were not achieved, this
  does not diminish its scale and historical significance.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Afghanistan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nation-building
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state-building
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic assistance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet foreign policy
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metadata.value: Soviet Project of Nation-State-Building in Afghanistan
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metadata.value: Article
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