Afghanistan Today

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

Designer(s):

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.