Afghanistan – a foothold for global confrontation. Review of book: Khristoforov V.S. Voennye kampanii SSSR i SShA v Afganistane: Sravnitel’nyi analiz [Military campaigns of the USSR and the USA in Afghanistan. A comparative analysis]. Moscow: RGGU, 2025. 270 p.

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2. Khristoforov, V.S. (2009), Afganistan: Pravyashchaya partiya i armiya (1978–1989) [Afghanistan. The ruling party and the army (1978–1989)], Granitsa, Moscow, Russia.

3. Khristoforov, V.S. (2014), KGB SSSR v Afganistane 1978–1989 gg. (K 25-letiyu vyvoda sovetskikh voisk iz Afganistana) [The KGB of the USSR in Afghanistan, 1978–1989 (On the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan)], Moscow, Russia.

4. Khristoforov, V.S. (2019), “The Afghan events of 1979–1989. From knowledge to understanding and recognition”, Rossiiskaya istoriya, no. 6, pp. 3–21.

5. Khristoforov, V.S. (2019), Sovetskie spetssluzhby otkryvayut Vostok [The Soviet intelligence services open the East], RGGU, Moscow, Russia.

6. Khristoforov, V.S. (2021), “Historical memory of the War in Afghanistan (1979–1989): new approaches, new sources”, in Antipin, N.A., ed., Arkhiv v sotsiume – sotsium v arkhive: Materialy Chetvertoi Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii [Archive in society – society in the archive. Proceedings of the Fourth All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference], Chelyabinsk, Russia, pp. 395–399.

7. Khristoforov, V.S. (2022), “The War in Afghanistan (1979–1989): Historical memory and problems of memorialization”, in Poplavskaya, Kh.V., ed., Problemy izucheniya i muzeinoi prezentatsii sovetskoi epokhi i istorii postsovetskoi Rossii: Dekabr’skie nauchnye chteniya, posvyashchennye 100-letiyu obrazovaniya SSSR i 30-letiyu ego raspada, 20–21 dekabrya 2021 g.: Sbornik nauchnykh statei [Problems of studying and museum presentation of the Soviet era and the history of post-Soviet Russia. December Scientific Readings dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR and the 30th anniversary of its collapse, 20–21 Dec. 2021: Collected articles], Gosudarstvennyi tsentral’nyi muzei sovremennoi istorii Rossii, Moscow, Russia, pp. 128–143.

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9. Khristoforov, V.S. (2022), The Taliban between religion and tribal traditions. [Book review]: Marsden P. The Taliban. War and religion in Afghanistan / Transl. from English by E. Egorova, E. Klinova. M.: Publishing House “Gorodets”, 2022. 320 p.”, RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. “Political Science. History. International Relations” Series, no. 4, pp. 96–107.

10. Khristoforov, V.S. (2023), “American troops in Afghanistan (2001–2021): to withdraw or not to leave”, Russia & World: Scientific Dialogue, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 55–65.

11. Khristoforov, V.S. (2023), “USSR and Afghanistan: diplomatic relations, military and military-technical cooperation (1978–1991)”, in “Vostochnyi vopros” vo vneshnei politike Rossii v XX–XXI vv.: sbornik statei po materialam mezhdunarodnoi studencheskoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Moskva, 2023) [The “Eastern Question” in Russia’s foreign policy in the 20th – 21st centuries: collected articles based on the proceedings of the International Student Scientific Conference (Moscow, 2023)], RGGU, Moscow, Russia.

12. Khristoforov, V.S. (2025), Voennye kampanii SSSR i SShA v Afganistane: Sravnitel’nyi analiz [Soviet and American military campaigns in Afghanistan: A comparative analysis], RGGU, Moscow, Russia.

13. Khristoforov, V.S. and Guseva, Yu. (2020), “The Soviet Union’s military strategy in Afghanistan: planning miscalculations and public rejection”, Quaestio Rossica, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 382–398.