Afghanistan : the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 /
"Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasi...
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
1997, ©1995.
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| מהדורה: | [Pbk. ed., 1997]. |
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תוכן הענינים:
- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- Why did the Soviet Union invade?
- Under the Soviet shadow
- Islamic resistance organizations
- Nationalist resistance organizations
- Urban uprisings and their suppression
- Beginning of the countrywide armed clashes
- A new type of war leader: the case of Logar
- KhAD as an agency of suppression
- Military and administrative measures for consolidation of the government
- Victory at any cost
- Elimination of opponents by nonmilitary means
- Genocide throughout the country
- Genocide in districts around Kabul
- Epilogue, 1982-1994
- Appendix A. Political organizations, factions, and unions
- Appendix B. Selected biographical sketches
- Appendix C. Afghan refugees in Pakistan
- Appendix D. Telephone conversation between Kosygin and Taraki.