Guided Exhibition Tours for Students
Guided Tours in the Exhibition “Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires”
The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan unleashed the last major international armed struggle of the Cold War period. Retrospectively, it seems paradoxical since Afghanistan had never been a central area of the Cold War before this conflict broke out. The Soviet leadership was initially reluctant to intervene and indeed, it proved to be a fatal decision in every way. It brought a bloody war to Afghanistan with an appalling toll of human life and great suffering. The moral, political, financial and military strain also contributed to a great extent to the collapse of the Soviet empire. In addition, the Soviet intervention reduced the Afghan state to chaos, and the disastrous global consequences of this state failure are still unresolved.
Guided tours in English are also available on request.
Date and Time: October 9–29, 2017; Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Venue: Galeria Centralis / Blinken OSA, 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
Registration: Anikó Kövecsi (kovecsia@ceu.edu) + 36 1 327 3250
(The tour takes about 45 minutes)
In the framework of the one-year program series “What's Left?”.