Histories, memoirs, autobiography, fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?

[Ivan S. Eubanks]

Sokurov's /Spiritual Voices/ is a documentary filmed while living with 
soldiers along the Afghan border, I believe.  It startsm with a 
beautiful 30-minute opening shot that seems to have nothing to do with 
war (the narrator discusses the composers whose music you're hearing).  
Then it features about four hours worth of daily soldier life, and 
finally live footage of a battle.  I think it's available on /Netflix/.  
It's worth checking out, at any rate, because it is designed to contrast 
the prolonged boredom of a station in the middle of nowhere with the 
sudden and unpredictable danger of a firefight.

Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D.
Editor
Pushkin Review
www.pushkiniana.org


On 6/7/12 12:45 AM, Elena Gapova wrote:
> "Zinky Boys" by Svetlana Alexievich (see 
> http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2>) 
> would be an obvious first choice for me.
> Also, there is a chapter on Afghan veterans and soldiers' mothers in 
> Serguei Oushakin's "Patriotism of Despair."
> Elena Gapova
>
> 2012/6/6 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at alaska.net 
> <mailto:sarahhurst at alaska.net>>
>
>     There is a film called "Cargo 200" set in that period with a
>     soldier killed
>     in Afghanistan as part of the plot, but it is extremely gruesome and
>     disturbing. Not because of the war, which isn't shown, but the crazy
>     psychopath who is the main character. Still, it's relevant.
>
>     Sarah Hurst
>
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