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Author Robinson, Paul, 1966- author

Title Aiding Afghanistan : a history of Soviet assistance to a developing country / Paul Robinson & Jay Dixon
Published London : Hurst, 2013
London Hurst & Company, 2013

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Description xi, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Models of Development and Soviet Theories -- 3.Soviet Assistance to Afghanistan Prior to 1979 -- 4.Soviet Assistance to Afghanistan: 1979-86 -- 5.Soviet Assistance to Afghanistan: 1987-91 -- 6.Conclusion -- Annex I Major Development Projects Completed by the Soviet Union -- Annex II Key Soviet-Afghan Treaties, Agreements, Protocols, and Letters, 1955-88 -- Annex III Profits of Enterprises Built with the Assistance of the USSR, 1976-77 -- Annex IV Credits Granted by the Soviet Union for Economic Development -- Annex V Postponements of Debt Repayments, 1965-91 -- Annex VI Major Development Projects Cancelled by the Soviet Union, 1980-85 -- Annex VII Credits Granted by the Soviet Union for the Purchase of Consumer Goods -- Annex VIII Costs of Soviet Technical Assistance to Afghanistan, 1981-91 -- Annex IX Economic Assistance and Other Expenses, 1986-87
Summary This book describes and analyses the economic and technical assistance programs run by the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s through to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and places them in the context of both Soviet-era development theories and more recent ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth. In some respects Soviet development theorists were actually ahead of their contemporary Western counterparts in realising the centrality of institution-building, but they proved unable to translate their theories into practical solutions. The reasons why their assistance programs failed so completely in Afghanistan remain compellingly relevant today
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Economic assistance, Soviet -- Afghanistan.
SUBJECT Afghanistan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063030 -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005782 -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114095
USSR -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117070 -- Afghanistan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063030
USSR -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117076
Author Dixon, Jay, 1970- author
ISBN 184904239X (hardback)
9781849042390 (hardback)