The Violence Curtain: Occupied Afghan Turkestan and the Making of a Central Asian Borderscape

This article examines the history of Soviet-Afghan encounters in northern Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. Drawing on archival materials from the former Soviet Union as well as recently published memoir collections by Soviet border guards, it shows how during the 1980s, northern Afghanistan...

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Main Author: Timothy Alexander Nunan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2017-10-01
Series:Transcultural Studies
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Online Access:https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23588