[txroadkill]

yes...but not really, it's more about the internal so there is a lot about Brezhnev and the Brezhnev Doctrine (Never give up territory), but not about what was happening outside of the Soviet Union.

My instructor is a conservative and she assigned the book for us to argue it. So she picked a good one. The book actually gives credit to the teachings of Islam for the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. So I've got a lot of stuff about the CIA and stingers.

[Army Air Corps]

Does the book make mention of Glasnost being a policy of expediency? The Soviet economy had long been in the crapper and crime in the USSR had been steadily rising since the 1970s (although, this was recorded in government stats and not in Pravda).