Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan

Author: M. Nazif Shahrani

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0253066794

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When originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan today. In this much-anticipated re-release, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan offers an opportunity for fresh insight into the antecedents of the nation's enduring conflicts. A new foreword by editors M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield contextualizes this collection, which relies on extensive fieldwork in the years leading up to the Soviet invasion. Specific tribal, ethnic, and gender groups are considered within the context of their region, and contributors discuss local responses to government decrees, Islamic-inspired grassroots activism, and interpretations of jihad outside of Kabul. Long recognized as a vital ethnographic text in Afghan studies, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provides an extraordinary chance to experience the diversity of the Afghan people on the cusp of irrevocable change and to understand what they expected of the years ahead.

Revolutionary Afghanistan
Revolutionary Afghanistan

Author: Beverley Male

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 100053569X

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This book, first published in 1982, examines the reality of the so-called revolution in Afghanistan. It focuses on the career of Hafizullah Amin, considered in the West as a near-genocidal mass murderer, intent on establishing a personal fiefdom in Afghanistan. However, this book argues that he was a man struggling against impossible odds to preserve his country’s independence and at the same time drag it into the twentieth century. He commanded such loyalty and support within the Afghanistan Communist Party and the armed forces that the Russians had to invade to get rid of him.

Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan

Author: M. Nazif Shahrani

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780253066770

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When originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan today. In this much-anticipated re-release, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan offers an opportunity for fresh insight into the antecedents of the nation's enduring conflicts. A new foreword by editors M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield contextualizes this collection, which relies on extensive fieldwork in the years leading up to the Soviet invasion. Specific tribal, ethnic, and gender groups are considered within the context of their region, and contributors discuss local responses to government decrees, Islamic-inspired grassroots activism, and interpretations of jihad outside of Kabul. Long recognized as a vital ethnographic text in Afghan studies, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provides an extraordinary chance to experience the diversity of the Afghan people on the cusp of irrevocable change and to understand what they expected of the years ahead.

Revolution Unending
Revolution Unending

Author: Gilles Dorronsoro

Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781850656838

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This is a history of Afghanistan's long running and continuing civil war, which erupted in 1979, a conflict that seems set to continue, notwithstanding Western intervention.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Author: Cāṇakya Sena

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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General study of politics, esp. The Saur revolution, in socialist Afghanistan - considers historical aspects, and the traditional political system, political developments and the role of USSR in support of the revolution; analyses the influence of Islam on the political opposition, Soviet military aid and the role of USA in response to the Soviet intervention; discusses the prospects of settlement of the political problems, resistance political movements, economic aid, refugee, foreign policy, social reforms, etc. Maps, statistical tables.

Kabul Under Siege
Kabul Under Siege

Author: Fayz̤ Muḥammad

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558761551

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This is an account of the occupiers extortio n, confiscation, and resulting hardships, as well as the act ions of those who resisted, is a timely reminder of the dram a being played out in Afghanistan today. '

State, Revolution, and Superpowers in Afghanistan
State, Revolution, and Superpowers in Afghanistan

Author: Hafizullah Emadi

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1990-02-28

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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This volume studies the process of nation-state building, its role in modernization and developments in Afghanistan following World War II to the period of Soviet occupation of the country in December 1979, and the struggle of various social strata for social transformation in the country. The book further explores the policies of the two superpowers--the United States and the Soviet Union--and their economic assistance in Afghanistan's modernization projects following World War II. The book offers insight into this superpower struggle, examining how each superpower tried to win Afghanistan to its side by supporting a particular social strata within the state apparatus. Finally, it analyzes how one of the contending superpowers--the Soviet Union, having failed to establish its influence in Afghanistan--decided to intervene in the country's affairs in December 1979. The book also examines the emergence and development of the Islamic movement and the Jihad struggle waged against the regime and the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It explores the basis of U.S. policy in aiding and abetting the Pakistan-based Islamic parties and the future of U.S.-Soviet struggle in Afghanistan. Much of the book is based on Afghanistan's primary sources as well as U.S. secret documents seized by the Iranian students during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran. The book links a survey of the literature to interviews with prominent policymakers who were active in Afghanistan's development strategies. The book should appeal to scholars and researchers on the Middle East and South Asia, as well as to lay persons interested in a new perspective and interpretation of Afghanistan politics.