The retrospective history in general of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

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Afghanistan

BBC Timeline for the 20th century.

Afghanistan—An Historical Overview

By Doctor Zayar, In Defense of Marxism, October 2001. The factors that shaped Afghanistan's history. A broad overview. US imperialism armed, financed and incited a reactionary coalition against the Soar Revolution, and the betrayal of the Russian bureaucracy. Situation of the Jirga.

Afghanistan: Some overlooked history

By Marilyn Bechtel, People's Weekly World, 5 November 2001. The effort the Afghan people made in the late 1970s and '80s to pull free of the legacy of incessantly warring tribes and feudal fiefdoms and start to build a modern democratic state, and about the Soviet Union's role in Afghanistan long before 1978.