At the start, the uprising of the Afghan population against the Communist regime was a spontaneous movement, centered around the village elders. But very soon and of necessity, the character of the resistance changed: to fight a machine as formidable …
Our readers will remember the extremely informative article by Olivier Roy on Afghanistan in our Winter 1981 issue, which we translated from our sister publication in Paris, Esprit. We now provide some excerpts from a conversation, again taken from Esprit, …
The following article, reprinted with permission from the excellent French monthly Espirit (in some respects a French Dissent), presents the first serious social portrait we have seen of Afghanistan society. Without glossing over its inequities or technological backwardness, Olivier Roy …
