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Before Taliban :

Author (نویسنده/ناشر):

Edwards, David B.

Catalog Source (منبع کتلاگ):

ACKU

Statement of responsibility:

David B. Edwards.

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

Physical Description:

xxii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Language:

English

ISBN:

0520228596
0520228618

Subjects--Corporate Names:

,Taliban.

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Saur Revolution (Afghanistan : 1978).
Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989).

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,Afghanistan -- History -- Saur Revolution, 1978.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century.

LC Class. No:

DS371.2. / E393 2002

Source of Classification:

Library of Congress Classification / Monograph

Accession No:

3ACKU000101401 3ACKU000399823 3ACKU000397363

General Note:

Abstract: David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history -- Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad -- to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. Each of the men Edwards profiles were engaged in the political struggles of the country's recent history. They hoped to see Afghanistan become a more just and democratic nation. But their visions for their country were radically different, and in the end, all three failed and were killed or exiled.