Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan

Author: M. Nazif Shahrani

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-11

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0253066786

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.