LEADER 03395pam a2200421 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230126163830.0 008 960514s1996 enkabf b 001 0 eng 010 96018660 020 0714642681 (pbk.) 020 0714645680 (cloth) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-uk-ene-uk--- 050 00 DA685.E1 |bL56 1996 082 00 320.94267 |220 100 1 Linehan, Thomas P. 245 10 East London for Mosley : |bthe British Union of Fascists in East London and South-West Essex, 1933-40 / |cThomas P. Linehan. 260 London ;Portland, OR. : |bFrank Cass, |c1996. 300 xx, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : |bill., maps ; |c23 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-312) and index. 520 The last war of the Soviet superpower was played out against the backdrop of dramatic change within the USSR. This study is the first to adopt a broad perspective to identify the impact and implications of the Afghan war on Russian politics and society. It draws extensively upon official and unofficial sources, as well as the afganets veterans themselves, to illustrate the way the war fed into a wide range of other processes, from the retreat from globalism in foreign policy to the rise of grassroots political activism. The veterans, their experiences and fates are examined both to explode certain myths and to use them as a case study in the politics of the Brezhnev era, the distribution of power and the state's relationship with disenfranchised citizens. The same approach is used to examine the war's victims - from injured veterans to bereaved families and carers forced to pick up the pieces - and then the rise of social and political movements related to the war. Further, Afghanistan's implications for the military, notably the professional officer corps, underline how the war dramatised issues already coming to the fore and accelerated changes already taking place. The central thesis of the book is that the war must be seen in the context of the fall of the USSR and the rise of the new Russia. It did not bury Brezhnevism and then Gorbachevism, though it certainly helped. But the experience of Afghanistan played its part in the evolution of post-Soviet Russia's foreign and security policies. When Boris Yeltsin appointed his first defence minister he picked an afganets, and the 1993 Military Doctrine called on the lessons of Afghanistan in quelling unrest within and on Russia's borders. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 600 10 Mosley, Oswald, |d1896-1980. 610 20 British Union of Fascists. 650 0 Fascism |zEngland |zLondon |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Fascism |zEngland |zEssex |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 East End (London, England) |xPolitics and government. 651 0 Great Britain |xPolitics and government |y1936-1945. 651 0 Great Britain |xPolitics and government |y1910-1936. 651 0 Essex (England) |xPolitics and government. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6320_942670000000000_LIN |70 |8GEN |9161172OSA |bOSA |d2023-01-19 |eComFas |l0 |o320.94267 LIN |r2023-01-19 |w2023-01-19 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 QorZg3oG 992 01 320_942670000000000_LIN |bWXZ_QVXTSZZZZZZZZZZ_EHC 966 |cIn the Research Room