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Pretty Flaco
11th November 2011, 00:52
I was wondering a few things:


Historically when did leftist movements begin in Afghanistan and what roles did they play?
What was the general contemporary reaction to the 1979 coup, in and outside of Afghanistan?
What progressive programs/actions did the communist government do?
What detrimental/bad programs/actions did the communist government do?
What caused the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
What role did Afghanistan play as a Soviet satellite state in the geopolitics of the cold war?

I was just wondering a few things after reading a fiction book. It mentioned how the communist government made education greater and uplifted the status of women (at least in law) as equals. However, the story continued and the characters hated the violence that came after the soviet invasion. (but they hated even more the violence that erupted after the warring between the rival warlords of the previous mujahideen, and later the violence and repression from the taliban)

Ismail
11th November 2011, 01:36
Here's a good introduction: http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/ALLIANCE45AFGHANISTAN.html

And a fairly good and neutral documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8889997458243686565

Another source, although from a bourgeois view (and claims, falsely, that the Soviets committed "genocide"): http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7b69p12h;brand=eschol