num_pages: 223
description: 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.
language: English
title: Afghanistan under Soviet domination, 1964-81
titlecomplete: Afghanistan under Soviet domination, 1964-81
ratings_count: 1
publisher: St. Martin's Press