Afghanistan in Soviet Foreign Policy

Bachelor thesis "Afghanistan in Soviet foreign policy" deals with mutual relations of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union since their inception during the time immediately after the October Revolution until their fateful escalation in the end of 1970s. Apart from the description of these mutual relations and their importance for Soviet foreign policy, the thesis describes the context of the Afghan Crisis which represents the process of détente in the Cold War. This process is illustrated on the tempestuous development inside Afghanistan. Furthermore, the thesis compiles the causes of Soviet decision to intervene, Soviet decision making process in the frame of the Afghan Crisis and last but not least the sole description of the intervention. In the end of this Bachelor thesis there are recapitulated principal consequences of the Soviet decision to solve the situation in Afghanistan by the use of force