An edition of Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium, Leipzig 1997
(1999)
Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium, Leipzig 1997
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Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium, Leipzig 1997
1999, P. Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements page v
Glossary xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. THE LIMITS OF 'SOVIETIZATION'
Chapters
1. The original social base of the 'Democratic Republic'
and its transformations 10
The situation in 1980 10
Transformations after 1980 16
The countryside 17
2. Difficulties in the implementation of the social program
of the Revolution 20
Female emancipation 20
The literacy campaign 22
The land reform 24
3. The building up of the social base of the Saur
Revolution and its limits 33
The expansion of party membership and its limits 33
The expansion of party structures 36
,Agitprop 40
Expansion of the social base 46
Party militias 48
The republic of the notables 50
4. Reluctant concessions and co-optations 54
Political approaches 54
Religious policy 57
Part II. THE AFGHAN REGULAR ARMED FORCES:
RECONSTRUCTION, REORGANIZATION AND
STRUCTURAL LIMITS
5. Karmal's 'new model army' and its role in the war 65
Stages of recovery 67
The impact of military operations 70
Organizational developments 76
6. The political shortcomings of the armed forces and
the party response 81
Factional infighting 81
Desertions 84
The party and the armedforces 86
7. The efforts to build up quantitatively the armed forces
and their limits 89
Recruitment 89
Levels of manpower 93
8. Attempts to address the strategic problems 95
Police operations 95
Intelligence operations 98
Porous borders 99
Strategic reserve 103
9. (In-)Effectiveness of the Afghan armed forces 107
Morale and professionalism 107
Equipment 112
The overall strategic balance 113
10. Perverse effects on the army of the transformations
caused by the war 116
Part III. THE 'PACIFICATION POLICY', 1980-1991
11. The early approaches 120
Thefirst strategic and tactical elaborations 120
Tribal policy 130
12. The first political strategy of 'pacification' 137
The local organs of power 137
The National Fatherland Front 142
Achievements andfurther initiatives 147
13. The National Reconciliation 154
Najibullah: continuity and discontinuity 154
National Reconciliation in the countryside 163
Impact of the Soviet withdrawal 176
14. Overall considerations on the policy of'pacification' 186
Achievements 186
Solidity and limits of the pacification policy 192
Part IV. THE ROLE OF THE MILITIAS
15. Origins of the militia system 198
16. The rise in importance of the militias 207
17. The place of the militias in the economy of the war 213
Activities of the Militias 213
Loyalty of the Militias 216
Attempts to increase the reliability of the militias 219
18. Perverse effects of the spread of the militias 225
19. Conclusion: The Fall of Najibullah 232
20. The aftermath: Afghanistan's disintegration 240
Appendixes
A. Statistical Tables 251
B. Maps 289
C. Graphs 294
Bibliography 297
Index 313.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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