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Inside Afghanistan / by Bruce Lane.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Afghans.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--1973-1989.
- Afghanistan.
- Politics and government.
- Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
- History.
- Afghans--Interviews.
- Afghans--Attitudes.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester (N.Y.) : Ethnoscope, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English and Persian (?), transcript in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- For the last 10 years, Afghanistan has been torn by a civil war between Soviet-educated modernizers who took power in an April 1978 coup, and Islamic militants who want an Islamic state like Iran or Pakistan . Soviet military intervention in December 1979 to prop up the Marxist government and western arms for the Islamic insurgents have complicated, not solved, this civil war. A generation of Afghans has grown up under opposing ideologies. It will not be easy to reconcile them. Pacho Lane , an American film journalist, went into Afghanistan to find out for himself the prospects for that troubled land. This is his report. National Police (“Sarandoy”) Convoy
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 8, 2012).
- Filmed in Afghanistan.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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