Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 196491 [Paperback]

The book offers a clear, authoritative and readable guide to the modern history of Afghanistan. This remote land made up of many tribes and ethnic peoples on the borders of Central Asia became a focus of Superpower rivalry and international intrigue after the Soviet invasion in 1979. This book shows how Afghanistan's traditional society has been profoundly shaken up in a cruelly destructive war, causing the world's biggest refugee problem and a chronic instability which threatens the wider region.List of Maps and Plates - Preface - Acknowledgements - The Land and the People in History - Society and Economy - Afghan Foreign Relations - The New Democracy and its Limitations - The Saur Revolution - Reforms from Above and Repressions - Afghan Centres of Opposition - Disintegrating Army v Divided Opposition - Passive Non-alignment - A State of Nature - Jihan and the Superpower Proxy War - The Soviet Withdrawal - Appendices - Notes - Index