No CrossRef data available.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 has prompted a large number of scholars and journalists to embark on the analysis of Afghan affairs. Even before the invasion, much valuable material was available in Western languages to the interested reader. The internal politics of Afghanistan had been studied by Louis Dupree, Vartan Gregorian, Hasan Kakar, Leon B. Poullada, and Richard S. Newell; Maxwell J. Fry and Gilbert Etienne had analysed the Afghan economy; and Afghanistan's international relations had been examined in detail by Ludwig W. Adamec. Indeed, a recent bibliography of works on Afghanistan has listed no fewer than 1,611 items dealing with Afghan history and politics. None the less, had it not been for the Soviet invasion, the study of Afghanistan would surely have remained the province of a few cognoscenti. In the wake of the invasion, however, a large body of literature on Afghanistan has been published, containing works varying in quality from the outstanding to the atrocious. An appraisal of the relative merits of some of the more widely cited studies therefore seems to be in order.
1. See Dupree, Louis, Afghanistan (Princeton, 1973)Google Scholar; Gregorian, Vartan, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernisation 1880–1946 (Stanford, 1969)Google Scholar; Kakar, Hasan, Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan (Austin, 1979)Google Scholar; Poullada, Leon B., Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan 1919–1929 (Ithaca, 1973)Google Scholar; Newell, Richard S., The Politics of Afghanistan (Ithaca, 1972)Google Scholar; Fry, Maxwell J., The Afghan Economy: Money, Finance, and the Critical Constraints to Economic Development (Leiden, 1974)Google Scholar; Etienne, Gilbert, L'Afghanistan ou les aleas de la cooperation (Paris, 1972)Google Scholar; and Adamec, Ludwig W., Afghanistan's Foreign Affairs to the Mid-Twentieth Century: Relations With the USSR, Germany, and Britain (Tucson, 1974).Google Scholar
2. McLachlan, Keith and Whittaker, William, A Bibliography of Afghanistan (Cambridge, 1983)Google Scholar, ch. 9.
3. Garthoff, Raymond, Detente and Confrontation (Washington, DC, 1985), pp. 942–5Google Scholar. This book makes extensive use of diplomatic cables sent to Washington by the US Embassy in Kabul, and published in Teheran after being seized by the militants who occupied the US Embassy in Iran from November 1979 to January 1981.
4. Also worth consulting is Amin, Tahir, ‘Afghan Resistance: Past, Present and Future’, Asian Survey, xxiv (1984), pp. 373–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5. Barry, Michael, Afghanistan (Paris, 1974).Google Scholar
6. See Michael Barry, ‘Repression et guerre sovietiques’, Les Temps Modernes, no. 408–409, July-August 1980, pp. 171–234.
7. See Kakar, op. cit., pp. 252–4. The emphasis on social structures in Ghobar's history may explain in part why it has recently attracted the attention of various Soviet writers. See, for example, Korgun, V. G., Intelligentsiia v politicheskoi zhizni Afganistana (Moscow, 1983)Google Scholar; and Davliatov, M., ‘Afganskii istoriko politike Anglii v Afganistane v pervoi treti XX v.’ Narody Azii i Afriki, no. 3, 1986, pp. 94–9.Google Scholar
8. Hill, Ronald J., The Soviet Union: Politics, Economics and Society from Lenin to Gorbachev (London, 1985).Google Scholar
9. See Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (London, Amnesty International, ASA 11/04/79, 09 1979)Google Scholar; Democratic Republic of Afghanistan: Background Briefing on Amnesty International's Concerns (London, Amnesty International, ASA 11/13/83, 10 1983)Google Scholar; Afghanistan: Torture of Political Prisoners (London, Amnesty International, ASA 11/04/86, 11 1986)Google Scholar; Jeri Laber and Barnett Rubin, ‘Tears, Blood and Cries’: Human Rights in Afghanistan Since the Invasion 1979–1984 (New York, 1984); Rubin, Barnett, To Die in Afghanistan (New York, 1985)Google Scholar; Dupaigne, Bernard (ed.), Les Droits de I'homme en Afghanistan (Paris, 1985)Google Scholar; ‘International Humanitarian Enquiry Commission on Displaced Persons in Afghanistan’, Central Asian Survey, v (1986), pp. 65–99; Ermacora, Felix, Rapport sur la situation des droits de I'homme en Afghanistan (E/CN.4/1985/21, Human Rights Commission, Economic and Social Council, United Nations, 19 02 1985)Google Scholar; Ermacora, Felix, Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan (A/40/843, General Assembly, United Nations, 5 11 1985)Google Scholar; and Ermacora, Felix, Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan (E/CN.4/1986/24, Human Rights Commission, Economic and Social Council, United Nations, 17 02 1986).Google Scholar
10. Defense * Foreign Affairs Weekly, xii (05 12–18 1986), p. 2.Google Scholar
11. See Maley, William, ‘Prospects for Afghanistan’, Australian Outlook, xxxix (1985), pp. 157–64CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Maley, William, ‘Political Legitimation in Contemporary Afghanistan’, Asian Survey, xxvii (1987), pp. 705–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
12. Saikal, Amin, ‘The Afghanistan crisis: a negotiated settlement?’, The World Today, xl (1984), pp. 481–89.Google Scholar