Abstract
A military coup on 17 July 1973 led by Mohammad Daoud overthrew King Zahir Shah and set up a Republic. President Daoud was killed in a military coup in April 1978 which led to the establishment of a pro-Soviet government of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
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Amin, S. H., Law, Reform and Revolution in Afghanistan. London. 1991
Arney, G., Afghanistan. London, 1990
Ghaus, A. S., The Fall of Afghanistan: An Insider’ s Account. Oxford, 1988
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Hammond, T. T., Red Star over Afghanistan. Boulder and London, 1984
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Hunter, B. (1992). Afghanistan. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271210_4
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