Title: Afghanistan Today
Photographer(s): Bakhtar Agency, Roman Ozersky, Sergei Sevruk
Compiled: Doctor Khaidar Mas'ud, Andrei Sakharov
Writer(s): Makhmud Bar'yalali, Genrikh Polyakov, Ismail Sloan, Babrak Karmal
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Publisher(s): Planeta Publishers, Moskow, Russia
Year: 1981
Print run:
Language(s): English
Pages: 240
Size: 21,5 x 28 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition: 2nd Planeta Publishers, Moskow, Russia1983 / 3rd Ishi Press, New York, U.S.A., 2014
Print: BoD, Norderstedt, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Afghanistan, 1979 - 1986
ISBN: 9784871875226
Afghanistan Today is a brilliantly photographed propaganda piece from the time of the rule of Babrak Karmal, who ruled Afghanistan 1979-1986. Originally published in 1981 with 240 pages, it was expanded in 1983 to 272 pages, with the pages resorted and reorganized. It is filled with full color photographs not available anywhere else. Let nobody be fooled by this book. Afghanistan was hardly the Workers Paradise depicted by this book. A brutal civil war was taking place while this book was being published, in which a million lives were lost.
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